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Do you ever wonder if Hagar was ..um .. hard on the eyes? Like Leah. This skit is probably not appropriate for your youth group. Sarah: “Snap! I need an heir. I need an heir NOW!! Sally – I’m not getting any younger!! What am I going to do??” Sally: “Eschol’s got a sale on […] 
Ipuwer Papyrus The Ipuwer Papyrus (“Dialogue of Ipuwer and the Lord of All”) is an ancient Egyptian poem preserved on a single papyrus, Leiden Papyrus I 344, which is housed in the National Archeological Museum in Leiden, Netherlands. It dates to about 1450 BC, the same time as Moses’ exodus from Egypt. Ipuwer describes […] When things are new, the Bible lays out a peculiar set of similarities: First Time Everything is new Adam and Eve tempted in a garden They ate forbidden fruit They were naked and ashamed A curse fell upon man and his offspring Second Time Everything was renewed Noah planted a garden […] Arminians (and many like-minded believers) insist that God only does to us what we do first. I find that problematic for many reasons, not the least of which is that the Bible tells us explicitly that we love Him because He first loved us (1 John 4:19), and Jesus said that His disciples (and surely […] There are a number of parallels between the Twelve Tribes and the Twelve Disciples. Many of them are kinda/sorta obvious. Here’s a weird one that struck me the other day. It’s not so obvious. In the Canaanite famine, the 12 sons of Jacob were sent by God to Egypt to live and eventually become the […] 
Question: Is God more concerned about His Name or His humans? This question is followed immediately by three other questions: Can we think of any place in the Bible where God prioritized His Name above His humans? Can we think of any place in the Bible where God prioritized His humans above His Name? Based […] Isaiah chapter 53 is perhaps one of the best chapters that shows the mechanics of how the substitutionary atonement works. Regrettably, it’s full of pronouns, and that makes it easy to overlook exactly what is happening in the atonement. Several years ago, one of my mentors suggested that I re-write the chapter and replace all […] Has anyone ever asked you to join a “Christian” FaceBook group that just seemed out of step with everything in your life? Or asked you to pray for a particular group of people that are too far off your radar and you wondered “why should I pray for these people?” Don’t get me wrong – […] I’m waiting for someone to come out of the woodworks and say that Joshua’s conquest of Canaan was no different than the actions of ISIS today. And could you really blame them for being confused? Both groups seem to operate under a “kill all unbelievers!” mentality – a clear violation of the Geneva Convention. Yet […] In Gen 1:26, we see God saying “Let Us make man in Our own image.” Who is the “Us”? There are several options: A – God is referring to the angels B – God is One Person and occasionally despite speaking (or being recorded) as more than One Person C – There are multiple Persons […] |
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