Photo by Samantha Gades on Unsplash Last week when we examined Acts 1, we noted how this story is ultimately the continuation of Luke's gospel. Jesus lived, died, rose again, and then set his followers up for a mission that they admittedly still didn't quite understand. But as this group…
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Acts 1: The Roots of the Church
Photo by Cristina Gottardi on Unsplash Learning to "Do Church"Over the next few months, we will be walking through the book of Acts bit by bit. Some weeks it'll be one chapter at a time, and other weeks it'll be larger chunks of text grouped together. With this blog…
Israel in Prophecy (Between the Testaments)
If you start reading the Bible from the start, it doesn't take very long before you run into the concept of the "Chosen People." The most obvious starting point for this is in Genesis 12, where God makes a covenant with Abram (later Abraham). Eventually this covenant gets upgraded when…
Romans 9-11: Who is Israel?
Who is Israel? Part 1: Romans 9-11[Photo by nour tayeh on Unsplash] Who is God's "Israel?" The identity of the Chosen People in the Hebrew Bible is pretty obvious. God chooses Abraham and his descendants to serve as part of his plan and remedy for the problem of human…
Queen Mother Bathsheba
The story of David and Bathsheba is often presented mostly as David's story. This is, in fact, how the Bible narrates it in 2 Samuel 11-12. It's a story about David's failure and the way that failure spiralled out of control. But Bathsheba has unfortunately been either overlooked or misunderstood…