Spouses Just Don’t Understand

My wife was complaining about my study the other day.  I showed her the following picture of another writer’s office and informed her that she is officially no longer allowed to complain about my office.

Yes, if you grew up in the 80’s then you will probably recongnize the title of this post as a not-so-veiled [...]

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Nothing New Under the Sun

I have no idea if this is true or not, but according to a book by E. Stanley Jones (The Christ of Every Road) written in 1930:
“The oldest known bit of writing in the world is a piece of papyrus in a Constantinople Museum. On it is written: ‘Alas, times are not what they used [...]

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Good Memories

They go by too fast, and I’m awful glad for photos. And yes, I was the donkey…

Dads always get the bad roles; didn’t you know?

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Christianity or Biblical Judaism: Must We Choose?

There is a trend that I have noted for some time, but which has been taking on new steam lately in Christian scholarship in an effort to emphasize the difference between Jesus and the Jewish Sages who were roughly His contemporaries.
I understand both the motivation to try and preserve these “differences,” and the scholarly data [...]

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Which Ones?

All the mitzvot [commandments] I am giving you today you are to take care to obey (Deuteronomy 8:1).
This Scripture actually describes God’s commandments in the singular (kol hamitzvah). The emphasis is not on following each one of God’s instructions as separate or distinct parts. Instead, they need to be viewed as a whole, as the [...]

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