New Wineskins
When an unhappy couple looks at each other and says, "I don't love you anymore," they're not saying what they think they're saying. Read more
When an unhappy couple looks at each other and says, "I don't love you anymore," they're not saying what they think they're saying. Read more
What if the love passage in 1 Corinthians 13 was more than just an inspirational quote to be read at weddings? What if it is a blueprint? Read more
Hidden within John 6:66 and the day the Jesus movement fell apart is a powerful message for all Christians today. Read more
What Jesus did was so brand new, even his forerunner John the Baptist was left scratching his head at one point. Read more
If you read the gospel of Matthew, you’ll see that John the Baptist and Jesus both came out swinging against the Pharisees. Why? Well, Matthew 9 gives us an idea of how the Pharisees had shifted and twisted from their laudable beginnings: As Jesus went on from there, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax collector’s booth. “Follow me,” he told him, and Matthew got up and followed him. Matthew 9:9 Let’s stop just for a moment and understand how... Read more
If we typecast the Pharisees as evil Klingons, then we won't empathize with them and we'll fail to see the Pharisee inside all of us. Read more
Jesus came to rebel against the corrupt temple practices of ancient Israel. Unfortunately, temple thinking still infects the church today. Read more
In John 2:19 Jesus made what would undoubtedly be classified today as a terroristic threat. Why would he do that? Read more
Of all the Bible stories I heard about Jesus growing up, this was the one most difficult for me to reconcile. Read more
On an overcrowded Russian subway (of all places), everything I thought I had figured out about Jesus completely fell apart. Read more
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