Category: Bible

  • Et cela fut ainsi

    Et cela fut ainsi

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    Krista Lyn White
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    11 Then God said, “Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.” And it was so. 12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their…

  • Sow the Wind, Reap the Whirlwind?

    Sow the Wind, Reap the Whirlwind?

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    Krista Lyn White
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    Interesting collection of recent uses of the phrase, “For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind” (from the prophetic Book of Hosea, eighth chapter, King James Version): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reap_the_whirlwind_(phrase) But is the saying true? Is it prophetic? I would be inclined to say… yes.

  • Discovering Biblical Equality

    Discovering Biblical Equality

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    Krista Lyn White
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    Discovering Biblical Equality: Complementarity without Hierarchy, edited by one of my favorite New Testament scholars, Gordon D. Fee. Read it. It just might answer some questions about those often abused, misused and wrongly applied “submission” and “silence” texts that don’t seem to fit other biblical accounts of female leadership (e.g. Deborah & Junia), the public…

  • The Bible’s View of Women and Wrong Presuppositions

    The Bible’s View of Women and Wrong Presuppositions

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    Krista Lyn White
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    None of us come to a conversation clean. By clean I mean we don’t listen without making assumptions. Most forms of personal communication rely heavily on assumptions. They are those unspoken thoughts and ideas that are “between the lines.” Assumptions ease and expedite communication, if they are right. But if an assumption is wrong, then…

  • Jesus is the Poor

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    Krista Lyn White
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    When we were kids, my parents would take us to church. And when it came time for the deacons to pass the offering plate down our pew, my mom would open her purse and put a quarter in our hands. It was for us to drop it in the plate. It was a simple lesson,…

  • Religious Consumer Expectations

    Religious Consumer Expectations

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    Krista Lyn White
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    “I went to the church for a year, but the pastor’s sermons just didn’t speak to me.” “I liked the music… but no one ever came up and introduced themselves to me.” “I attended the women’s Bible study… but no one seemed to care about what I had to say.” Merely going to a church…