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New Year’s Resolve: Jesus and Money Part Six
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Ben Witherington
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/isbn=1587432749/bakerbookhouseA http://www.brazospress.com/Book.asp?isbn=978-1-58743-274-3 There are so many myths about tithing that it is hard to enumerate them all. One of the more popular ones is this—If you tithe, then God will necessarily bless you far more than you have given. This is based on sayings like “Ask and it will be given to you” (Mt. 7.7).…
Love a Good Murder Mystery? Try James or Doherty
By
Ben Witherington
‘Now is the winter of our discontent’ said the Bard, but for me its a time for reading dis content or dat content. I do a lot of reading in January during all the cold and snow. And there is hardly anything more fun than curling up in my reading chair and reading a good…
A Word from a Chaplain on God’s Presence in the Midst of Disaster
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Ben Witherington
Geoffrey Studdert-Kennedy was not, by classic standards a great poet. But as a Chaplain in WWI who saw everything in France in the Maginot line he reflected long and deep not just on human beings inhumanity and cruelty to other humans but also about where God is in a time of crisis, disaster, great suffering. …
Theological Movie Month Part One– The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus
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Ben Witherington
January is normally the dead zone for movies, but somehow this year it has turned into theological movie month what with The Edge of Darkness at the end of the movie with Mel Gibson playing an avenging angel of a father with lines like “You’ve got to decide whether you are hanging on the cross…
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