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Bible: No need to wait to wipe the slate clean

Growing up, the first day of school was the most sacred day on my annual calendar. Whatever regrets, whatever mistakes had marked the previous year

Meghan Good

February 15, 2016

Bible: The day will come when you’ll forget

What do flatbread, dead donkeys and tambourines all have in common? (Hint: They’re not just key ingredients in the world’s worst dinner date.) They are

Meghan Good

February 1, 2016

Bible: That’s your first miracle?

It’s no small thing to choose a first miracle. After all, this will be your public introduction, the image that will travel with your name

Meghan Good

January 18, 2016

Bible: Mirror of God or idolatry?

It’s hard to tell which makes Christians more nervous — talking about God in the language of sex (Hosea) or talking about sex in the

Meghan Good

January 4, 2016

Bible: God with us! God with them?

“The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel (which means ‘God with us’).” Immanuel. God with us.

Meghan Good

December 21, 2015

Bible: Her whole life in the offering box

One story, two tellings: No. 1 — Jesus and his disciples are visiting the Jerusalem temple. They’re sitting around, people-watching. They observe worshipers placing money

Meghan Good

December 7, 2015

Bible: Sabbath-keeping, empire-breaking

I’ve never been very good at keeping the Sabbath. To my knowledge, this is the only case where public admission of habitual commandment-breaking might actually

Meghan Good

November 23, 2015

Bible: Paul, the restless preacher

The next four cities Paul and his companions visit — Thessalonica, Berea, Athens and Corinth — are all in what is now Greece. As they

Reta Halteman Finger

November 10, 2015

Scripture versus experience

Our next three lessons cover large developments in the Jerusalem church and beyond. In Acts 12 we find Peter in prison guarded by four squads

Reta Halteman Finger

October 26, 2015

Peter’s vision shakes the foundation

While Saul is stowed away in his native Tarsus, the action moves back to the cities of Lydda, Joppa and Caesarea in Palestine, along the

Reta Halteman Finger

October 12, 2015

God’s power is not for sale

Stephen’s impassioned sermon from our last lesson incited such blood-lust in his listeners that he was immediately stoned to death. In praying for forgiveness for

Reta Halteman Finger

September 28, 2015

Whose side are you on?

As he writes about the early Jerusalem church, Luke holds our attention by alternating public and private events. The Sept. 13 lesson involved internal community

Reta Halteman Finger

September 14, 2015

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