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Bible: The rider on a pale horse

So this is how the world ends: not with a bang or a whimper but with the sound of your last square of toilet paper

April 20, 2020

Bible: Nevertheless, God rescues

I almost drowned in the ocean once. I consider myself a strong swimmer, and that afternoon I confidently waded out from the beach and slipped

Brad Roth

April 6, 2020

Bible: Resurrection changes everything

When the miners in the collapsed Copiapó mine in Chile were finally rescued and shuttled to safety through three miles of stone on Oct. 13,

Brad Roth

March 23, 2020

Bible: The trumpet call to holiness

We were driving through the night in a pickup truck somewhere in the deserts of northwest Mexico. After an evening church gathering, I and several

Brad Roth

March 9, 2020

Bible: Scaling the watchtower

Lake Titicaca, impossibly wide and deep and high above the sea, fills an immense mountain trough in the Andes along the Peru-Bolivia border. The lake

Brad Roth

February 24, 2020

Bible: Forgive us our debts

In the Gospel of Matthew, the account of Jesus’ teaching on prayer is found right in the middle of the Sermon on the Mount. One

Ted Grimsrud

February 10, 2020

Bible: Temptations of kings — and Jesus

The connection between the passages from 1 Kings in our previous lesson and Jesus’ temptations in the wilderness might not be obvious. But what if

Ted Grimsrud

January 27, 2020

Bible: The clash of king and covenant

The eighth chapter of 1 Kings may capture the moment in the Old Testament where the two great covenants — Davidic and Mosaic — come

Ted Grimsrud

January 13, 2020

Bible: Houses for a king and for God

The place of the temple in biblical faith is complicated — with emphases on the temple as the God-ordained center for worship contrasted with sharp

Ted Grimsrud

December 23, 2019

Bible: David’s prayer, Mary’s song

In the first three lessons of this quarter, we looked at how 1 Chronicles 15-17 presents kingship and the temple in ancient Israel. Now we

Ted Grimsrud

December 9, 2019

Bible: The chronicler’s story of hope

First and Second Chronicles are pretty obscure for many Christians. The Common Lectionary that many Protestant groups use for worship covers most of the Bible

Ted Grimsrud

November 27, 2019

Bible: Exiles, aliens and six virtues

Both texts for Nov. 17 and 24 are from letters attributed to the Apostle Peter. Both take the gospel of Jesus from its Jewish origins

Reta Halteman Finger

November 13, 2019

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