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Bible Commentary

On the Horns of Redemption

It could be said that the story of redemption is the story of Israel. We who have come into redemption from the nations often miss

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Bible Commentary

Divine Lapse of Judgment?

On top of all the other hard questions about why things are as they are, how about this: if God knew that it wasn’t good

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Even Without Bread

One question we don’t like to ask is, “Why do bad things happen to good people?” Maybe we don’t like to ask it because we

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Sprinkling the Dogs

We love our dogs, but because they are dogs, sometimes they get into things that make them repulsive to us. That’s when they need some

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Divine Expectation Management

Life is an endless series of negotiations. Children and parents negotiate their relationships and boundaries, business partners negotiate contracts, social organizations negotiate bylaws, and nations

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A Bride’s Journey

If marriage is a picture of our collective relationship with our Messiah, then we might want to pay more attention to how that relationship is

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In the Valley of the Lepers

The reason we don’t reach out more to undesirable people is because they are, well, undesirable. But how much of that undesirableness is because they

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Waiting For Shiloh

Sibling rivalry has threatened the peace of families since the first family was formed. That’s why our Creator chose one family to reverse that trend

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