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“Land is a central, if not the central theme of biblical faith.” (Walter Brueggeman, The Land, p. 3) This is one of my all-time favorite quotes. It was deeply impressed upon me during my days as a college student. I can’t even imagine reading the Bible now without having this fundamental...

Who did God leave and who did God take? God left righteous Noah and his family on the earth and took away the wicked from the earth. This is another scene in the Hebrew Bible pointing forward to Jesus and the gospel of the kingdom he preached. The wicked are eventually removed from the land...

He was a great Irish comedian. I used to watch his show on television with my mother when I was a teenager. He always (or almost always) closed his show like this: I still remember when it finally dawned on me one night what he was doing with his signature closing line. I turned to my mother...

Do you know what a straw man is? If you‘re able to document that I’ve said Jesus is still dead, then you should do it. That’s what it will take to in order for you to make your case against me. Have you ever heard me say that the one true God cannot die? (I have.) *** @Riven. I’m sorry this...

* Checking my notes. * No. I didn’t call Jesus a liar. You‘re calling me a liar.

Jesus was in the tomb / grave that day (and two more). So, too, did the crucified man whom he was speaking to go to the grave that day. They were together in the place of the dead: the grave. The grave is paradise? Paradise is the garden of Eden restored. At home in the body, not out of the...

“Then Yahweh said to Noah, ‘Enter the ark, you and all your household, for you alone I have seen to be righteous before Me in this generation. … Then the flood came upon the earth for forty days, and the water multiplied and lifted up the ark, so that it rose above the earth. And the water...

- C.S. Lewis

* So-called Devil’s shrubbery. *

@Riven. Please don’t blow this. There is such a thing as counterfeit Christianity. Let it walk. Focus your eyes and ears on Jesus.