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The Book of Judges ends with a terrible story about a village within the tribal allotment of the Benjamin where the men demanded that a...

Notice the contrasting phrases in the first paragraph of the first chapter, verses 1-3, and the second paragraph below, verses 4-5. This...

After Jephthah was given a victory by God, he rashly made a promise to offer as a sacrifice to God the first thing to come out of his...

Jeremiah, the prophet not the bullfrog, was called by God to preach, to criticize, and to warn people who imagined that they were...

This is a difficult story. The distance between our culture and the culture of the Israelites and surrounding people during the period of...

Well, we come to the end of the Gospel according to Matthew, and I am glad that you are still with me in our quest to dig deeper into...

Read Judges Chapter 5. It is a psalm, that is, a song. The psalms were written to be sung or chanted back and forth by the worship leader...

Jesus’ words are comforting, but why should his disciples remember this? Are they supposed to recall it because Jesus has already told...

You know the story of the children of Israel; God broke them out of captivity in Egypt through the work of Moses. There was the...

Luke 12……….Rich toward God   LUKE 12: 13-21.  Someone in the crowd said  to him, "Teacher, tell my brother to  divide the family...

“ And teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you” (Matthew 28: 20b)    What does “to obey all that I have commanded you”...

I said that we were ready to leave the Pentateuch in our survey of women with a story to tell, but I missed an important group (which, to...

“And teaching them  to obey everything that I have commanded you” (Matthew 28: 20b) Notice that Jesus did not say, “teaching them to...

God’s interest in socially marginalized people, especially widows, is clear throughout the Old Testament. I presented passages to this...

“And teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you ” (Matthew 28: 20a)  Where should we go for a definition of teaching? The...

Before we leave the Pentateuch, that is, the first five books of the Bible (called in Swedish Mosesbuk 1, Mosesbuk 2, etc.), I have...

“ “Baptizing them  into the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit”   (Matthew 28: 19b)  Some scholars wonder whether or not...

And now, as Paul Harvey used to say, for the rest of the story.   “ Then she let them down by a rope through the window, for her house...

Matthew 28: 19b, “ Baptizing them…     For his earthly mission, Jesus, “ though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with...

The previous story of Tamar was a difficult read for modern Christians. The key points from the Bible’s perspective are that Judah left...