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In my previous post in this series, I sought to explain the various political and social groups we meet in the stories of the Gospel.  The first response we may have is to conclude that involvement in a political party should be avoided.  In reality, I do not believe disengagement is the best response.  So […]

Any time I write about political parties I do so with incredible nervousness and hopefully humility.  We tend to hold our alliances with a lot of passion, and that can be a good thing.  My intent in this series of blog posts is not to criticize either of the major parties in our two party […]

I have in my office a book that is one of my treasures.  It is a collection of Psalms for the church published in the 1860’s.  The leather-bound book was a gift from a student I had the privilege of teaching in one of the college New Testament History courses.  In the course I spend […]

Isaiah 40:21–24 [21] Do you not know? Do you not hear? Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth? [22] It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a […]