(Easter Week Table Church Newsletter) Around Holy Week, that's a question I often find myself thinking about. Each year in the church (for the past 1,989 years, to be precise), we retell the stories of Jesus turning over tables, washing feet, being betrayed and abandoned, being nailed
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I recently preached on two of Moses’ encounters with God. The first, in Exodus 3, Moses meets God at the burning bush. Moses, anticipating questions from the Israelites he’s been asked to deliver out of Egypt, asks what he should call this God. God reveals the divine name Yahweh
Setting aside, briefly, the issue of divine violence in the Old Testament, I want you to notice this brilliant literary touch in Exodus. The book begins with the command to commit genocide against the Israelite slave population in Egypt. Pharaoh commands that every Israelite male infant is to be drowned
First, towards the people of Ukraine. “I don’t understand, I decidedly do not understand, why men can’t live without war.” “You would think that humanity has forgotten the laws of its divine Savior, who preached love and the forgiveness of transgressions, and that it finds its greatest merit
Religion writer Rick Pidcock once said, "It's funny how I've always heard the 'slippery slope' argument as a warning for becoming more liberal, but have never heard it as a warning for becoming more conservative." For example, some might warn that if
For my morning devotions I have been reading the Septuagint. The Septuagint is the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible. Why read a translation instead of the "original" Hebrew? Well, two big reasons. First, the Septuagint was THE "Bible" of the New Testament writers. Most times,
Genesis 1—4 tells the story of a man and a woman in a relationship who have three sons. These chapters tell us a lot about human nature, family dynamics, how we relate to God, how we relate to creation, and much more. From these stories, we can make theological
A Question from a Facebook Commenter: "How do you connect a dead God to ending death without using the biblical understanding of ransom/sacrifice/substitution the scripture speaks of (Romans 5:10)?" Response: This right here is my problem with Penal Substitution theories of atonement (PSA), in that