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BEFORE WE CHRISTIANS VOTE with our pocketbooks—like some people do who don’t bother with God—there’s a jolt waiting for us in Bible books of the prophets. One prophet in particular, Amos: God doesn’t measure kingdoms and nations by upbeat economic …
Q The first birth announcement on record about Jesus went to shepherds working the night shift, “keeping an eye on their sheep” (Luke 2:8). If God has a flair for the dramatic and a taste for metaphor, what do you think the value was in an angelic …
Q LIFE APPLICATION. Paul says God has equipped people with different gifts. He mentions several in Ephesians 4:11. “He spread gifts around, too. He equipped people to serve him as apostles, prophets, preachers, pastors, and teachers.” …
Q When Joseph’s brothers apologized again for selling him into slavery, Joseph said: “You wanted to hurt me. I know that. But you need to know something, too. God wanted to help me and many others as well. He turned the bad thing you did into …
I COMPLAIN TO GOD SOMETIMES. One of the big questions we humans have about God is whether or not he’s anything more than someone’s imagination from thousands of years ago. As in a piece of fiction that got told over and over so many times that …
I’LL BET YOU DIDN’T KNOW that Jacob was almost 100 years old when he wrestled all night long with what seems to have been a celestial being—possibly God. It’s one of many strange and mysterious stories in Genesis. Some wonder if it …
The devil took Jesus to…the highest structure in the Temple, and said, “If you are Son of God, jump. It’s in the Bible: ‘God will order his angels to protect you'”…Jesus answered, “It’s also in the Bible: ‘Don’t mess around …
LADIES MARCHING IN WASHINGTON DC this week during the inauguration will include at least two of my friends. A woman in my Bible study group has taken her daughter, a student at Kansas State University, to join the march. Not everyone in Kansas is …
WE’RE AFRAID. More than half the population of the United States is deeply disturbed about what is coming in 2017. Our nation is about to get a radically different kind of a president…one that the majority of the voters rejected, by about …
“GOD WAS SORRY that he made the human race in the first place” (Genesis 6:6 MSG). Really? Humans are such a disappointment that God says it was a mistake to create them? If Moses wrote this book as part 1 of the first five books in the Bible, as …
Out of respect for God, Jews avoid saying or writing his name. When they write it, they will often drop a vowel and spell God’s name “G-d.” When they say it, they will call him Adonai (ADD oh ni), which means “my Lord.” A Visual Walk Through Genesis, …
No one today seems to know how to pronounce God’s name. Most English Bibles translate it as “LORD” (Genesis 2:4 NLT). But the Jews who copied the stories onto scrolls used shorthand. They spelled God’s name without vowels: YHWH. Scholars today …
