Cultural Differences When Confronting Pharisees, Part 3 of 3
about the community expectations of the oldest son in the Prodigal Son Parable and Christ’s own pressures from Nazareth
Erasing and Replacing the Jews’ Identities
In ancient Jewish society, if you couldn’t prove your Jewish ancestry back many generations, you were in many ways a “nobody.”...
Inspiration from a Disdained, Untrustworthy Physician
Click picture to make it bigger The woman with the discharge of blood—who spent all her living on physicians (Luke...
The Insult that Mocks God
Click on the picture to make it big In one of my former blogs, I used a modern-day comparison to...
Take Vengeance on a Good Samaritan?
Do you regularly pick up hitchhikers? Most people don’t, perhaps mostly because they’re scared the hitchhiker will pull a gun...
Learning From the Doghouse, Part 1 of 3
Being in the doghouse with someone is something we’re all familiar with. Analyzing Christ in the doghouse isn’t something we’re...
Peer Pressure, Poems and Politics, Part 3 of 3
Click on the “picture” of poems to enlarge. This is the final segment on bible-time pressures to conform to the...
Peer Pressure When Having Guests, Part 2 of 3
Click on the map to enlarge Last week’s blog introduced classroom peer pressure as a familiar concept in our westernized,...
Classroom Peer Pressure, Part 1 of 3
Click the picture to enlarge it I titled this blog “Classroom Peer Pressure” to convey one of the most foreign...
Did you read your Bible lately?
Heather, May 2023
