Central to the biblical story is the conviction that something has gone terribly wrong. The world as we experience it is not the world as God intended. In this episode we turn to the biblical explanation why – how humanity moved from the Garden of Eden to a cosmos in which “thorns and thistles” are...
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Understanding the Bible 01: In the Beginning… (Creation)
Understanding the Bible in its various chapters and verses requires that we first understand the story as a whole. (Hard to make sense of the details when you don’t know much about the big picture.) So for the next 40 weeks or so, I will do my best to trace the outline of the biblical...
Gospels, Part 5: Jesus, Prophet of the Kingdom
One of the greatest challenges to understanding the message of Jesus is knowing how to categorize him as a speaker. When those first audiences gathered, who did they think they were going to hear? A teacher? A philosopher? A political leader? Or something else? In this fifth installment in the Next Steps into the Gospels course...