Tag: Bible Study
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Day 146: King James, The Dead Sea Scrolls, and the Case of the Missing Couplet (Psalm 145)
Did modern Bible translations “add” a missing verse to Psalm 145? Not exactly.
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Day 128: Friendship, Secrets, and an Appreciation for Tara-Leigh Cobble (Psalm 25:14)
Psalm 25:14, has been translated in two different ways, and my first is to figure out which one is “right.” But what if I’m asking the wrong question. I’m I willing to listen to a perspective that comes from a different place?
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Day 124: Wazzup With Uzzah? (1 Chronicles 13-16)
When we forget the holiness of God, we start to believe our instincts are safer than His commands. That’s a deadly mistake.
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Day 093: Knowing the Bible but Missing God (Judges 11:30-31)
Jephthah knew Israel’s story better than most of the people in Judges, yet he still missed the heart of God in a devastating way.
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Day 089: Making Sense of the Cycles in Judges (Judges 1-2)
The book of Judges is thrilling, violent, tragic, and painfully repetitive. But Judges is not just Israel’s sin. It is God’s mercy.
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Rethinking Graphic Easter Sermons
Why do so many Easter sermons, pageants, and films linger over the gore of the crucifixion when the Gospels themselves are so restrained? The cross was undeniably brutal. But the Evangelists seem far more interested in its meaning than in its mechanics.
