Bible
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Cosmic battle, human war
I wrote this post last week, and it’s been sitting in my drafts folder. It’s such a sensitive subject, and I am so very much “in process” in mulling over it. But I…
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Consider the lilies
I’ve been thinking about God sending the Israelites into the wilderness for 40 years to discipline them for their unbelief. On Sunday a picture of the desert was projected on a screen in…
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Worth Reading
Greg Boyd, who wrote Letters from a Skeptic, has a post called Getting Honest about the Dark Side of the Bible. It touches on the subject of his upcoming book: Crucifixion of the…
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Old Testament Struggles
Our church is “doing” The Story, a resource that helps churches to experience the overarching themes of the Bible together within the span of a year. It’s an abridgement that puts the Bible…
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Modern Day Plagues
This week for Sunday school, I’ve been thinking about Moses and the plagues and the Red Sea. What strikes me most is the contrasts. Egypt is under the authority of a ruler rebellious…
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Two Ways of Reading
…I believe that most people who read the Bible as Scripture do so in one of two ways: compliantly or conversantly… …Compliant readers are individuals whose basic instinct is to read the Bible…
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The Violence of Scripture
“Is this a good story, or a bad story?” Some friends were over, and the kids were watching Prince of Egypt. They were up to the plagues, before we even got to the…
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Change of Pace
Yesterday morning when my husband was in the living room tying his shoes, I heard him chuckle. “Where are we going with all this, Honey?” he asked. He was looking at the book…
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Nature’s Witness: How Evolution Can Inspire Faith
Recently a question occurred to me: what if the way we read the Bible is all wrong? Typically we approach it with the idea that the world was perfect until humans messed it…
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Restorers
Also, although what “image of God” means in its fullest biblical witness may be open for discussion, in Genesis it does not refer to a soul or a psychological or spiritual quality that…