For much of my life as an educator I followed the Biblical Creation debates with interest and touched on them myself several times during my Master's and PhD degree programs and in my role as a church leader and Sunday School teacher. However, as I approached my 2nd retirement in 2017 I largely checked out [...]
Category: Bible Topical Studies
Acknowledging Bias
I recently taught a Sunday School lesson about the Good Samaritan story told by Jesus in Luke 10:25-37. Without addressing the whole thing here I just want to mention one of the points from that lesson. We need to be willing to acknowledge our biases and check them out. One assumption from the Samaritan story [...]
Life of Paul 34
It's been two months since my last Life of Paul post. When we left off, Paul was in Corinth and had written his letter to the church in Rome (Romans) explaining major theological points and indicating his plans to travel there on his way to Spain. Paul was in Corinth, as you'll recall, on his [...]
Life of Paul 33
Paul continues his letter to the church in Rome. Last time I reviewed his reasons for writing (laying a strong theological foundation and his plans to visit on his way to Spain), as recorded in Romans 1-5 and 15-16. The rest of the book (chapters 6-14) focuses on Christian living. As the NIV study bible [...]
Life of Paul 32
The next phase of Paul's life began after he visited Corinth one last time. In our last visit with Paul, he had received word through Titus about Corinth while in Macedonia. He wrote 2nd Corinthians and we looked at that letter. We read in Acts 20:2-3 that, "when he had gone through those regions and [...]
The Watchmaker's Pulse 