Animosities between individuals and groups of people are a given in our world today. Just take a look at the headlines in any newspaper. In spite of how we may feel about certain individuals or groups of people in our society, God seeks out all human beings to offer them the gift of h
Don’t hit your sister! Sometimes it takes all the willpower we have as children to obey. As adults we may have an approach-avoidance response to God’s will for our lives. We may intentionally seek spiritual growth and fulfillment, yet withdraw or pull back when God’s call conflicts with “our
One of the great arts of Christian theology is to know how to tell the story: the story of the Old Testament, the story of Jesus as both the climax of the Old Testament and the foundation of all that was to come (not a random collection of useful preaching material with some extraordinary and
Luke has already introduced several themes which will be important as his book progresses. Next he emphasizes the way in which the early church was living as the true people of God—not least, we may suspect, in order to highlight an emerging paradox. The temple authorities thought they were the