Leviticus 19:18

Excerpt from my book Love a 40 Day Biblical Approach to Love Part I Leviticus 19:18 …but you shall love your neighbor as yourself… Whoa, I don’t like the sound of this verse. You mean love M……

Excerpt from my book Love A 40 Day Biblical Approach to Love Leviticus 19:18 …But you shall love your neighbor as yourself. A huge part of this love business is self-less love. We humans fro……

I do not relish controversy, and I particularly dislike engaging in polemical battles with other evangelical Christians. But as my previous posts in this series demonstrate, when the gospel is under attack from within the visible church, such controversy is necessary. And if it seems fierce disagreements within the church have been the rule rather …

The Greek Sculpture The Spear Bearer and Michelangelo’s David I read Scripture as a mountain with the thirty-nine books of the Old Testament building up to the revelation of Jesus Christ in the Gospels. Acts and the letters of Jesus’s disciples then grapple with the seismic, big bang revelation of Jesus Christ. And so our […]…

Welcome to Real Life. The other day, I found myself living a parable. Helping a person will not necessarily change the world, but it will c……

We are all trying to understand and deal with the Coronavirus in our own ways, day by day, hour by hour. May we not pass judgment on others who prepare and equip themselves in ways we don’t understand because they differ from ours. May we now more than ever love our neighbors as ourselves and show empathy, patience and kindness.…

St Augustine, in his homily on the First Epistle of John, remarked, “Love – and do what you like.”[1] St. Augustine’s tenet expresses the theme of today’s readings. Love is the very core of C……

Matthew 22 23–45, Blog Through the Bible ProjectJesus comes across here as strong, intelligent, resourceful, with considerable presence of mind and courage. He thinks on his feet, fast and calmly.This one man, along, can stand up to a crowd of pharisees, saducees and lawyers.Go, Jesus, go, and give us your spirit, please. […]…

This week we see part one of a two-part blog posting. Here, we will examine the question Jesus is asked, and next week we will study his answer to that question. In the Gospel of Luke, we find the account of a contentious interaction between Jesus and an expert in the Law. I think it……

This week we see part one of a two-part blog posting. Here, we will examine the question Jesus is asked, and next week we will study his answer to that question. In the Gospel of Luke, we find the account of a contentious interaction between Jesus and an expert in the Law. I think it……