I’ve observed something interesting in Scripture….God’s penchant for balancing events in the Old Testament with others in the New Testament…..Like the idolatry of the Hebrews worshipping the golden calf in the desert while Moses was on Mt....
Latin admonere “bring to mind, remind, suggest;” also “warn, advise, urge,” from ad- “to” + monere “advise, warn” Admonish: to caution, advise, or counsel against something; to reprove or scold. We urge you, brethren,...
Things I have learned and am required to address regularly: With women in recovery, I find that they have a very “loose” definition of “lie”. Lying by omission appears to never be considered a lie to them. Being presumptuous in willfully...
Recently, I was driving on one of those overcast on-again-off-again rainy days and came upon a scene near the road of a marshy swamp of cypress trees….It was a dreary scene… dark, still, ominous, and hardly inviting. Yet, I saw a beauty in it that I had...
I have been reading “Jesus and the Land: The New Testament Challenge to Holy Land Theology ” by Gary Burge. I have to take it in small bites and read it side by side with Scripture. The notion of “the land” as more than geography has been one...
A heretical bishop in the United Methodist Church had written that this story, told in Matthew 15:21-28 and in Mark 7:24-30, is an example of Jesus’ bigotry and misogyny, that he would ignore a Gentile woman’s pleading for help. But as I wrote then, after...
