Read the rest of the series In my pastoral ministry work, one of the biggest problems I deal with is individuals who have had the Bible used in a way that hurt them. One young man my wife and I have come to know will
For the gifts and the call of God are irrevocable. (Romans 11:29) The church is in turmoil. Those with more conservative beliefs are in an uproar that the church is now including those with new ideas, those with ways they deem sinful and unnatural. The
These verses are considered by most scholars to be a part of Job’s first cycle of speeches. The verses become different as he begins to reprimand his friends for what they are saying to him. Job thinks of God’s deeds and wonders. He wants to
Tychicus will tell you all the news about me. He is a dear brother, a faithful minister and fellow servant in God. I am sending him to you for the express purpose that you may know about our circumstances and that he may encourage your
Life does not always turn out the way we planned. As children we dream of a future full of excitement and adventure. Doctors, astronauts, rock stars, the glittering list is one of endless possibilities. Then reality takes over. The physically limited or uncoordinated give up
The recently-uncovered Lost Gospel of Judas was all over the news in April, and headlines continue to be devoted to it. This ancient text, which has been carbon-dated to between 220 and 340, is a copy in Coptic (ancient Egyptian) of a gospel that was
Before noon last Friday, April 7, we were presented with a trinity of mass media stories about ancient Christianity: a “lost gospel” of Judas appeared on the front page of the New York Times; a British court decided Dan Brown did not plagiarize from Baigent
Read the rest of the series Good Friday. A young rabbi, unjustly condemned, beaten close to death, hangs naked and humiliated on a cross outside the busy gates of Jerusalem. A few, a very few, brave friends are close by to lend what moral support
Jesus answered: “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind”; and, “Love your neighbour as yourself.” (Luke 10:27) But he [the law expert] wanted to justify himself, so he asked
About a year ago, after my giving a talk on how the Bible doesn’t condemn, but actually affirms, same-sex love, a woman with a gay brother, raised in a Christian family, asked me to write out “talking points” on the subject of the consistency between