Most people have experienced disagreement. When we disagree, there are several ways we can engage those who hold different views. Before proceeding, however, it is important to acknowledge that people do not typically arrive at their beliefs through detached analysis of facts and logic alone. As Jonathan Haidt has argued, we often intuit our beliefs first and then use reason
Text: 1st Kings 22:34-35 You hear all the time, “he was in the wrong place at the wrong time”. The thing that comes through loud and clear is that life is governed by chance and ‘stuff just happens’. At the end of King Ahab’s life, the bible records an event that seems to confirm just that. It is found in
Revelation 3:7–13 Part 2 (Part 1 is available in the July issue) Continuing our look at Jesus’ greeting to His people in Philadelphia, He went on to say, “‘He who is holy, who is true, who has the key of David, who opens and no one will shut, and who shuts and no one opens, says this:’” Here again as
In my last post I wrote briefly about covetousness. A lot more could have been said including the idea that contentment is the opposite of covetousness. A truly contented person has no desire for things that belong to another person. Contentment doesn’t come naturally to us as human beings. As I mentioned in the previous post, we are practically forced
This is the first of a series of three psalms beginning with the word, Hallelujah. Every psalm from 111 to 113 begins that way. It could be that 114 began that way as well but the textual evidence is mixed. The psalm is an acrostic. It runs through the letters of the Hebrew alphabet with two new letters introduced in
Many years ago, when I was working in kitchens and studying cooking, I became fascinated by truffles. Not the chocolate kind, but the rare fungi that grow underground and are prized by chefs around the world. I’ve never had the opportunity to try a fresh truffle myself, but I have read enough and watched enough chefs talk about them to
Understanding Romans 4 and James 2 Abraham occupies a unique place in the New Testament. Both Paul and James appeal to him as the great example of faith. Both writers quote from Abraham’s life. Both writers point their readers to the same patriarch. Yet they draw attention to different events and address different concerns. Paul takes his readers to Abraham’s
It is good for us to try to understand how the first readers might have understood an Old Testament passage before going on to the New Testament understanding of that passage. Possible meaning when written At first, Psalm 110 may have been understood as a royal enthronement poem. When David had captured Jerusalem, it would have been natural to have
Psalm 109 is one of the more extreme imprecatory psalms. Rather than commenting on the words of the psalm itself, this article will deal with the reasons such psalms are included in our Bibles. We will then leave it to the reader to determine how the interpretive principles stated here apply to Psalm 109. Christians struggle to understand psalms that
An older brother, Grady McKnight, asked a young man who occasionally preached, “When will you bring us another sermon?” The young man replied, “When I have something original to say.” Brother McKnight replied, “If it is original then it is not biblical. The preacher is never to bring an original message, but only to preach the old message in a
We are still awaiting the proof copies of the next book. It seems that the brother who is bringing them took a side trip on his way here. He left Oklahoma over a week ago but is not expected to arrive in Eswatini for almost another week. So, we have not yet been able to see the books and approve
We have come to the last book of the Psalter. Throughout book five we seem to be dealing with later psalms — exilic and post-exilic. Only five of these forty-three psalms have a heading indicating a connection with David. The content and themes indicate a later period of history for most of the psalms in book five. It seems likely
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