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Bible Commentary

God and Two-Tiered Justice

No one likes a double standard, except perhaps when that practice works out in their favor. That’s why human justice systems often seem unfair. Is

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Mourning the Wicked

Ever since human beings started defining good and evil for themselves, we’ve had this problem of consigning people we define as evil to destruction. As

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Recreating God

We have a lot of trouble understanding and relating to our infinite God. That’s because He is infinite and we’re not. What we know of

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Counting the Dark Stars

Is our Creator trustworthy if He doesn’t come through on His promises? We need to wrestle with this question because the eternal destiny of the

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One More River to Cross

There is some comfort in knowing that our Creator expects us to fail. It’s part of the lengthy training process He has overseen for millennia

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But What If He Doesn’t?

We don’t like to think about the fact that we begin dying at the instant of our birth. It’s hard enough to cope with that

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Recycled Kingdom

These days we’re supposed to recycle everything. That’s actually something we learned from our Creator. He’s been in the recycling business from the beginning –

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Clothes Make the Man

Do clothes reflect character, or does character influence clothing choice? And what relevance does that question have to God’s people? Exodus 27:20-30:10; Ezekiel 43:10-27; Matthew

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Authority to Break

Our Creator has been delegating His authority from the beginning. He’s got some very important reasons for doing that. We’re miss those reasons, however, if

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