False Humility in the NT, Apocrypha, and Pseudepigrapha, Part 1 of 3
What are the symptoms of false humility? How do they display in religiosity and different cultural contexts? How do they...
Different ways cultural differences can interfere with our understanding of the Bible in its original context
What are the symptoms of false humility? How do they display in religiosity and different cultural contexts? How do they...
how Jesus confronted the Pharisees hypocrisy in stages, gently progressing into the boldness and offensive truths they needed to hear
why fringes mattered in bible times, why it matters to us, why symbolism mattered to them and us
understanding the significance of the cup in Bible times makes a better connection with its rhetoric and the communion cup
we need to cultivate our hatred of sin to serve God from gratitude, and not guilt, so learning about dung in the Bible, and Luke 18:9-14, helps
If we can capture God’s enormity and ourselves in contrast we can be rid of guilt and serve from gratitude
Leviticus shows high standards symbolically since we don’t have to obey much of the rules, but we have such a problem with our hearts
Leviticus has many rules and weird rules to make us realize how much we need God to change our hearts to want to obey what he requires of us today
Leviticus has so many rules it’s too much for us to please God, which shows our need for a Savior
Today we’ll learn about Passovers and how they fit in John’s Gospel. This will make connections between Christ’s words and...
Praise the Lord! My students finished helping me with the latest technology and now I’ll be busy all summer with improving my presentations and organizing my material to significantly improve your experience here. If you want to keep tabs on the latest edits, check out the bottom of my blog index.
My story of forgiveness and healing is quite unrelated to envisioning the Bible world. But since our world is sin and pain infested, I suspect many will want to hear more about my personal experience. I anticipate writing a couple of blogs about this, but mostly I’ll focus on envisioning the Bible world.
The following documentary links are gradually going to disappear from here this summer, appearing instead under the menu option “Tour Israel.” There, I’ll cover more introduction and pictures to the areas these links cover.
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