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11 mins read|04/10/20Was Jesus really in the tomb for a full three days and three nights? If so, how does this square with his death on Friday and resurrection on Sunday? Is there a contradiction here? In this article, Chad Bird explores the Hebrew understanding of this phrase to shed light on the words of Jesus.
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6 mins read|02/27/20There’s a delicious freedom to wrongdoing. It taps a primal desire within us for rebellion. We feel liberated, unshackled by demands to be this way, do this, avoid that. We become masters of our own destiny.
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12 mins read|01/07/20Matthew’s account of Jesus's baptism is only 5 verses and about 100 Greek words long, but multiple Hebrew stories are swimming right below the surface.
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9 mins read|12/12/19If you're blocking Jesus, then for the love of God, get out of the way. Let Jesus show.
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13 mins read|12/10/19In the wilderness, God reaches down to show us that the only life is in one place: where there is water.
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14 mins read|12/04/19There is no evidence whatsoever that Christmas was or is, by some outlandish stretch of the imagination, a pagan holiday, or a semi-pagan holiday, or that it doesn’t pass the “smell test” for paganism.
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7 mins read|11/30/19Come, Lord Jesus, and steal our navel-gazing worship, and replace it with love for our adversaries, ears to listen and mouths to shut up, and hearts brimming with compassion for all.
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10 mins read|10/28/19We show up to this crowded sacred shindig on Sundays, all wings and halos and blue jeans, and shimmy our way into the sanctuary, late to church but not late to church, for how can we be late to a service that never ends?
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11 mins read|05/30/19Because of the ascension, the manger has become the cosmos.
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7 mins read|04/20/19Jesus didn’t simply vacate the tomb to end death. He brought up from that grave the seeds of a brand new start at life. Genesis 1 all over again, with no chance of Genesis 3.
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8 mins read|04/15/19Since God is most high, He can only look down. Nothing is above Him. No one is more exalted than He is.
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7 mins read|12/24/18With her iPhone, Mary snapped a pic of Jesus in the manger, chose the Clarendon filter, and posted it to her Instagram account.
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