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The Tree of Life: Lost but Not Forgotten
When you think about the tree of life, what are some of the things that come to mind? It may come as a surprise to many that the tree of life reappear...
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The Tree of Life: Lost but Not Forgotten
When you think about the tree of life, what are some of the things that come to mind? It may come as a surprise to many that the tree of life reappears elsewhere in the Bible. Read...
What If I Don’t Want to Read the Bible?
At this time of the year, many of us wrestle with a more basic problem: what if we don’t want to read the Bible in the first place?...
How to Read the Bible With Your Head (And Not Lose Your Heart)
Let’s consider what it means to deepen our mental habits of Scripture reading without sacrificing the emotive and heartfelt connection that the Bible intends to awaken in us....
Are the Parables of Jesus Confusing on Purpose?
Jesus is an artist and, at times, a mysterious artist willing to provoke his audience. Jesus worked in the medium of parables, which are short, fictitious narratives populated by v...
How to Read the Bible With Your Heart (And Not Lose Your Head)
Let’s consider what it means to deepen our mental habits of Scripture reading without sacrificing the emotive and heartfelt connection that the Bible intends to awaken in us....
Keeping the Sabbath: Is it Still Relevant to Christians Today?
A regular, rhythmic time of rest is right there in the opening story of the Bible. Before humans turned away from God, before God established his partnership with the nation of Isr...
Christians talk a lot about the “heart” and the “head.” The idea is that in matters of faith, there is some tension between the feeling, emotive side of our spirituality and our intellect. Some of us worship in Christian traditions that tend to emphasize one or the other....
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Why Did God Ask Abraham to Sacrifice Isaac?
This story causes us to ask a lot of troubling questions. What kind of God would ask for this? Is God commanding child sacrifice? Isn’t this request in conflict with everything els...
Who has God chosen?
When you hear the phrase, “God’s chosen nation,” what comes to mind? If you’ve read the story of the Hebrew Bible (or Old Testament), you know that it tells the story of God’s inte...
Why did God flood the world?
For many today, the idea that the God of the Bible is good, beautiful, and loving crashes against moments in the Bible of violence, judgment, and bloodshed. Why did God flood the w...
Four Tips for Reading the Four Gospel Accounts
If you have read through the Bible up to the four gospel accounts, the suspense of the unresolved story peaks. The arrival of King Jesus is the long-awaited culmination! But when w...
Generosity: What are We Missing?
Generosity is one of those things we’d probably all say we value, but how that practically works out in our lives may be a different story....
The “Missing” End of Mark’s Gospel
The "gospel" may be a familiar idea in the Christian faith today, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy to believe or follow....
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