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My favorite commentary on Ruth is by a Jewish scholar, Tamara Cohn Eskanazi (who was completing work started by Tikva Frymer-Kensky)....

Yet He has now reconciled you  in His body of flesh through death,  in order to present you before Him  holy and blameless and beyond...

On that day you will know  that I [am] in My Father,  and you [are] in Me,  and I in you. –John 14:20 NASB The albino rocker Larry Norman...

When I started the Reimagining Paul blog, I began with this paragraph: A problem of perception exists between Christianity and society....

Since before time, God has been for us—completely for us, for all of us, invested enough to take on our condition and lift us up out of...

Do not be amazed that I said to you,  'You must be born again.'  –John 3:7 NASB  Maybe we humans are not so bad. Could it be we simply...

In Him was life,  and the life was  the Light of mankind. –John 1:4 NASB Life. We have it in limited quantities—eighty years worth, give...

We generally learn about life through the window of our experiences. We discover things about relationships, health issues, career...

I am not pretending that this list and these definitions are rigorously derived from a long study, with definitions honed by voluminous...

"Truly, truly I say to you,  unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies,  it remains alone;  but if it dies, it bears much...

This blog (in case you’re new here) opposes the common understanding of Christianity known as “justification theory.” The God of...

The Adam story—which need not be interpreted literally—is about the human condition. We might imagine that we are a rational species...

Fear of missing out on salvation hovers over this entire passage. Paul's rivals promoted anxiety in order to gain followers for their...

Paul once said to a community he founded, "I am amazed that you are so quickly deserting Him who called you by the grace of Christ, for a...

Imagine a life in which the Omnipotent Deity will save you if you can successfully high jump a five-foot bar or if you can perfectly sing...

Preface: I used to write and deliver sermons regularly in a previous phase of life. Like many who have been pastors, I spoke hundreds of...

The central message of Christianity is supposed to be Divine Love, but all Christianity's auditors hear is Divine Judgment.