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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...

“Therefore, go and make disciples  of all nations .   (Matthew 28: 19a)  The Bible presents a theology of inclusion. From the beginning,...

Dinah was a woman with a story to tell, but the biblical text never told that story. By contrast, Tamar is a woman with a story to tell,...

“Therefore, go and make disciples  of all nations.   (Matthew 28: 19a)   As I have indicated earlier, the main verb of this sentence is...

Dinah , the daughter of Jacob and Leah, had a voice that was never heard. The text has silenced her. As the story unfolds, it is the men...

“Therefore, go and make disciples of all nations”   (Matthew 28: 19a).  As you walk along the beach, do you ever hope to find something...

I would guess that, while you may have heard a song about Dinah, you have never heard a sermon about Dinah. There is a story in the Bible...