What does it mean to be masculine and what does it mean to be feminine? How do we guide our sons and daughters in this important area? In a previous post, I touched on some important basic truths: With these things in mind, let’s dig into some meaningful specifics. 1. We should think of ourContinue reading “The Scripture and Gender (3)”
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Holding Out for a Hero
Joseph Campbell spent his entire life reading, writing, studying, and lecturing about mythology. For Campbell, mythology was much more than just stories from the Egyptians, Greeks, or Romans — it embraced historical figures as well as fictitious ones. Someone asked him one time why there were so many stories of heroes in mythology and CampbellContinue reading “Holding Out for a Hero”
Aaahh, Joseph!
The angel tells Joseph that his beloved Mary is pregnant not by another man as he has supposed, but by the Holy Spirit of God (Matthew 1:20). Matthew lines their situation up with Isaiah’s prophecy, “The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son,” (1:23/Isaiah 7:14). Joseph has two things to do: accept MaryContinue reading “Aaahh, Joseph!”
Last Meals and Living Hope
Asleep at the Wheel is the name of a group that plays western swing music. Several years ago they recorded a song called Last Meal. It is a fictitious account of a man on death row about to be executed. However, before his execution can take place, the warden tells him he gets a lastContinue reading “Last Meals and Living Hope”
Death and Taxes
I think I speak for most of us (tax accountants and H & R Block employees excluded), when I say that April 15th is not a date that we look forward to. It is more than just the day when our taxes are due, it is a day of reckoning. It is the adult versionContinue reading “Death and Taxes”
Deuteronomy
Background on Deuteronomy Stepping into the Story Someone We Can Relate To (3:23-26) Living in the Land of Promise (6:4) Facing the Anakites (9:1-3) Thinking About the Tithe (14:22ff) Tender Hearts and Open Hands (15:1-11) How to be a King (17:14-20) The Kingdom of More (17:16-17) Community, Justice, & Truth Telling (19:15-21) Truth Telling (19:15-21)Continue reading “Deuteronomy”
Philemon
Useful! Opening the Bible Home
Proverbs
Guarding Our Hearts No Disciples Without Discipline! Overcoming Bad Choices And Their Consequences Overmatched Pride and Humility Proverbs and Love Something We Should Value That Is Liberation! The Disciple And Freed Speech (1) The Disciple And Freed Speech (2) Wisdom As A Tree Of Life Proverbs And Corporal Punishment
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Philippians
Loving God Gloriously (1:9-11) A Church That Looks Like Jesus (2:1) Knowing Christ (1) (3:7-11) Knowing Christ (2) (3:7-11) Knowing Christ (3) (3:7-11) Press On!