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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...

It is possible, and I believe profitable, to review the Gospel according to Matthew through the lens of Jesus’ parting words. The speech...

Abraham’s brother Nahor had stayed back in Syria, more often known as Aram in the Bible. Aram was the plateau region of upper...

The Gospel with the stories that Matthew chose to tell about Jesus is drawing to a close. We will consider later what Matthew was trying...

The stories of Abraham and his son Isaac are equally the stories of Sarah and Isaac’s wife: Rebekah.   Has there ever been a time when...

28: 1.  After the Sabbath, as the first day of the week was dawning, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to see the tomb.   Jesus was...

“Cast out, old man, cast out,” Sarah said. She was complaining to her husband about Hagar. Hagar is the original woman with a handmaid’s...

This is a long chapter. Who divided these things up anyway? Actually, it was the Archbishop of Canterbury, Stephen Langton, leader of...