Category: Bible
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Will There Be Sports in Heaven?
“Will we get to play sports in heaven?” The first time I heard the question asked was in a Bible class in the eight grade. The boy that asked it was being serious. Basketball was his life. He wanted to go pro one day. Our teacher was from Nigeria. He had had a much different life…
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Jesus Love Me, This I Know
Jesus loves me, this I know For the Bible tells me so. A lyric of a children’s song. A lyric that Karl Barth said summarized his whole life’s work in theology. Jesus loves me… How do we know? Reason? Answered prayers? Unanswered prayers? Church traditions? Jesus loves me, this I know For the Bible tells me so.
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Revisiting Feminism and the Bible’s View of Women
About a year ago, I got into a discussion with a Christian blogger about the term feminist. I told him that I didn’t think any Christian should call themselves a feminist. I told him that another word was needed if any real impact in the area of equality was to be achieved in American evangelical…
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I will bring back the scattered
“I will feed My flock in a good pasture…and I will lead them to rest,” declares the Lord GOD. I will seek the lost, bring back the scattered, bind up the broken, strengthen the sick…” Ezekiel 34:14-16
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Same-Sex Marriage: What’s a Christian to Think and Do?
Same-sex marriage. The three-word combination that was once only a dream for the homosexual community is now a legal reality in the United States. But, what is a Bible-believing Christian to think and/or do about all this? Just “love, love, love,” as the Beatles sang? Yes, love—that’s all we need. It is how God made…
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Sleeping Jesus
It is a great comfort to me to know that when I’m sleeping, the Lord is taking care of business. As the psalmist says: He doesn’t sleep or take naps (Ps. 121:4). He goes and goes and goes. But if the Lord doesn’t sleep, what are we to think of sleeping Jesus in Mark 4:35-40? For…