Monthly Archives: April 2012

In Deuteronomy 13:1-3a Moses warns the people of Israel, ” If a prophet, or one who foretells by dreams, appears among you and announces to you a sign or wonder, and if the sign or wonder spoken of takes place, … Continue reading →

I get thoughts on occasion. Usually odd ones. Just ask my wife. For instance, as I was reading Mark 6, something popped into my head. I’m still toying with it. See what you think. Maybe start gathering stones now. There … Continue reading →

Of all the mistakes that we make in reading the Bible, I think that the most common sort is to take passages out of context. Sometimes it is relatively innocuous, as when we use the words of Revelation 3:20, “Here … Continue reading →

I ran across the following in the Letters section of the LA Times some years ago: Every couple of years, in search of spiritual enlightenment, I gird my loins and vow to read the Bible from cover to cover. Unfortunately, … Continue reading →

I was reading through Exodus recently—specifically, Exodus 38—where I found such scintillating words as these: “Next they made the courtyard. The south side was a hundred cubits long and had curtains of finely twisted linen, with twenty posts and twenty … Continue reading →

A man’s own folly ruins his life, yet his heart rages against the LORD. (Proverbs 19:3) NIV Send to Kindle

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a Lutheran pastor who was part of what was called the Confessing Church during the Nazi years in Germany. While most churches in Germany went along with Nazification and made whatever changes Hitler dictated, a small percentage … Continue reading →