The 3Fs of "What to Make of a Life"
Another self-actualization book? Yes, that’s what Jim Collins’s 10-year research project employing 28 research assistants has produced.
Sojourners/Immigrants/Resident Aliens in the Bible
Charlie asked me, "What does the Bible actually say about 'sojourners'?" Here are 18 examples of migrants in the Bible + 25 points from Yahweh's Code of Conduct, but first: 9 basic starting points before we dive in.
6 Generations of Israel in Ezekiel 20 & Psalm 106
Here's an inter-textual reading of Ezekiel chapter 20 (excerpts; TLV) and Psalm 106 (excerpts, Voice). For each of the six pairings of call and response, the Ezekiel passage is in plain type, and the Psalm portion is in boldface. Tree of Life Version (TLV) (© 2014 by the
Confusion & Mistakes about the Triune God
Here brief bullet points for 3 categories of 16 mis-takes on the biblical theology of the Triune God: A. The Holy Spirit is not truly God 1) Binitarian-ism: Binitarianism is also known as Pneumatomachi (which literally means “Battling against the Spirit”) and as Macedonians. • The Holy Spirit is
Dark Night of the Soul by Ola Gjeilo
Wait for the climax that begins at 9:15
How the Enemy Wants You to Evangelize
How the Enemy Wants You to Evangelize (John 21 v1-25)0:00/1155.3176251×
The Joseph Epic on the Emmaus Road: 16 Ways Luke 24 Echoes Genesis 42 & 45
The Joseph Epic on the Emmaus Road: 16 Ways Luke 24 Echoes Genesis 42 & 45
John 9.1–13 & 28–38 dramatized reading
This dramatized reading of John 9.1–13 & 28–38 is based on the CJB, Complete Jewish Bible © 1998 David H. Stern. Here's the altered text, followed by a 1-pager JPEG and then a PDF file: narrator — The Holy Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according
The Amazing Good News of Ezekiel 11.16
A Lenten Sermon on Ezekiel chapters 8 to 11: When Special People are Good at Form over Function
John Chrysostom & the Ten Commandments
In 387 CE [AD] in Syrian Antioch, now southeast Turkey, John Chrysostom preached a series of sermons to his fellow Antiochenes who had been charged with sedition for rioting against new taxes. Bishop Flavian of Antioch traveled to Constantinople to persuade Emperor Theodosius to pardon the city. On the Last
The Kind of Society Built by Bystanders
16 unintended but inescapable consequences for a society caught in the riptide of complicity
Stand Up for Jesus
Dudley Atkins Tyng was an Episcopal priest who had been deposed from his rectorship in Philadelphia for being an abolitionist. At a YMCA revival in March 1858, Tyng preached on Exodus 10.11 which in the King James Version is rendered: “Go now ye that are men, and serve the