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101 Most Misunderstood Verses Bible Backgrounds

Hems, Tassels, & Weird Encounters: 1 Samuel 15, Part 3 (Video)

101 Most Misunderstood Verses Bible Backgrounds

Hems, Tassels, & Weird Encounters: 1 Samuel 15, Part 2 (Video)

101 Most Misunderstood Verses Bible Backgrounds

Hems, Tassels, & Weird Encounters: 1 Samuel 15, Part 1 (Video)

Ethics Politics

Mao, Abortion, & the Contrarian Spirit: An Exercise in Thinking

Who Put the “Should” in Proverbs 22:6, Part 2 (Video)

Genesis as Ancestor Epic Part III: The First Law as the Seed of All Just Law

Genesis as Ancestor Epic, Part II: What is an Ancient Creation Story?

Genesis as Ancestor Epic, Part I: Getting with the Program

He’s No Idiot: Peter’s Interpretation of the Vision of the Sheet in Acts 10

Peter & Ezekiel Argue with God and Win: Acts 10 in Light of Ezekiel 4

Some Traditions Deserve to Die: The Traditions of the Elders in Mark 7

Mark 7:19 and the Little Participle that Could

Jesus vs. the Law: Torah, Halakah, and Jesus’ Declaration of Dietary Deliverance in Mark 7:19

Jesus May Have Declared All Foods Clean But I Still Won’t Eat Chilled Monkey Brains

Though Your Sins be Made White as Snow, You Still Might Goof Isaiah 1:18: Part 1—Red to White

Though Your Sins be Made White as Snow, You Still Might Goof Isaiah 1:18: Part 2—Nasty Grammar Questions

Though Your Sins be Made White as Snow, You Still Might Goof Isaiah 1:18: Part 3—Context

Re-imagining David and Goliath—Hey Big Boy?

Re-imagining David and Goliath—Slings of Outrageous Proportion

Re-imagining David and Goliath: Foreheads, Legs, and Sling Stones

Becoming Like our Idols in Isaiah 44:18

Take My Daughters, Please!—The Righteous Offering of Lot’s Daughters

Getting out the Pagan Within Part 5: The Significance of the Central Saying—A Biblical Theology of I Samuel 15:27-31

Psst…. Yahweh Doesn’t Mean “I AM”

Body Parts, Wives and Other Stuff in 1st Thessalonians 4:4