CHAPTER TWENTY: BEYONDS ALL BOUNDS, BEYOND ALL EXPECTATIONS Dawn came early, and Jesus was already up, eating a crust of bread and drinking some water from the well in the middle of the courtyard at Simon’s own house. The disciples had spread themselves out amongst the houses of James and John and Simon and Andrew…

CHAPTER NINETEEN: FOOD AND FOOD FOR THOUGHT An uneasiness had settled in among Jesus’ disciples as they were unsure of who exactly Jesus was or where this ministry was going. Jesus seemed to have alienated not only his family and hometown folks, but also various of the Jewish authorities as well, so they asked themselves–…

In the fifth chapter of his study of sin,  Gary Anderson probes some material in Leviticus 25-26, and here some of his critical assumptions about Leviticus become crucial.  Like many, but certainly not all scholars, Anderson believes that Leviticus is a book that has some materials in it that go back to the First Temple…

(The following is a brief excerpt from my forthcoming Philippians commentary. ‘Enjoy!’) JOY– THE ELIXIR OF FAITH, THEEFFERVESCENCE OF HOPE               Scholarshave often pondered the semantic range of the words chara and chairein andthere have been a variety of opinions about the meaning of these words.[1]   Clearlythey are important in this discourse where they…

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