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April 2018

April 03, 2018
Judas is the real star of the show Jesus Christ Superstar. His portrayal in the...
April 02, 2018
Here are the strongest objections to my claim that Jesus’ resurrection is the bedrock for...

March 2018

March 30, 2018
We find the bedrock for what we believe inside the Church of the Holy Sepulcher...
March 27, 2018
It’s like the fabled “Showdown at the OK Corral,” only here the scene is a...
March 26, 2018
The word anti means “against” in English far more than it does in Greek. Examining...
March 22, 2018
“Thief” is too mild a word in the verse where we are told that Jesus...
March 19, 2018
Two major puzzles about the trial of Jesus deserve answers. First, on which day of...
March 15, 2018
The ancient Qumran community was so strict about the Sabbath that their rules did not...
March 12, 2018
The Pharisees have had a lot of undeserved bad press. Like the Puritans, they have...
March 08, 2018
The Hebrew concept of being “upright,” doing what is “right,” the opposite of crookedness, is...
March 05, 2018
Does God do “bad?” It depends on what you mean by “bad.” The Bible teaches...
March 01, 2018
Church compensation has come a long way from the days of the early church, or...

February 2018

February 26, 2018
Lawlessness is not where people commit crimes, but when law itself is dismantled by those...
February 22, 2018
“Drag” versus “draw” – which way would be the best word to translate what Jesus...
February 19, 2018
In my first post on holiness, I introduced the novel idea that holiness means simply...
February 15, 2018
Here at the start of Lent is a good time to reexamine the meaning of...
February 12, 2018
Desire can be good, bad, or neither. In the New Testament, lust, coveting, everyday neutral...
February 08, 2018
Mother Teresa’s message that Jesus comes to us in the face of the poor and...
February 05, 2018
Eunuchs have become another attempted Biblical argument in favor of rewriting the Bible’s sexual ethic....

January 2018

January 31, 2018
Does God care about how we dress or what we wear? Does God expect us...
January 29, 2018
Male performance problems can be found right in 1 Kings 1. King David is 70...
January 25, 2018
There is already ample evidence that the New Testament writers did know of loving, mutual...
January 22, 2018
The Bible gives no age of consent for sex. It simply teaches that sex must...
January 18, 2018
Gender identity was seen much differently by the Jews of Jesus’ day than the issue...
January 15, 2018
The Bible says that God is not a “lifter of faces.” God doesn’t check your...
January 11, 2018
Hell: is it a hideous threat, unworthy of our enlightened age? Is hell merely a...
January 08, 2018
Can reincarnation be compatible with the Christian Gospel? Hebrews 9:27 says no: “It is appointed...
January 04, 2018
So whom should Christians support in our leadership choices? It’s a Hobson’s choice: a choice...
January 01, 2018
When Paul complains that the Galatians “observe days and months and seasons and years,” could...

December 2017

December 28, 2017
Are the “brothers” of Jesus in Mark 6:3 really his cousins, or his half-brothers? Can...
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