Uproar.  That’s the only word for it.  Precisely the thing that the Council must not allow to happen.  Who could predict how Pilate would react? 

In the comfort of our hindsight, we can tend to be kind of harsh in our assessment of Israel’s behavior following the Exodus from Egypt. 

Have you ever doubted if there really is a God? If your answer is “no", that’s awesome. I hope you never have a time when you need to look into why it’s worth believing in God. I hope this remains a trivial subject for you forever. 

Nothing ever goes smoothly, it seems. Or if something does it’s almost a shock. Our culture has a name for it:  Murphy’s Law. No point in going into all the ways it shows up in daily living.  But it might be worth thinking about it in a spiritual context.

You can count yourself blessed if you’ve never been asked by a health care professional to rate your pain on a scale of 1 to 10.  Many are all too familiar with the question. 

Paul exhorts us to examine ourselves, as often as we remember our Lord’s sacrifice and resurrection.

Ordinary sentences are simply inadequate to describe Jesus. A poet’s touch is needed, the skillful use of devices such as metaphor, which can pack far more meaning into a few words.

“Have I learned anything?  Have I grown?  Have I lost ground?” 

Paul confesses to a specific recurring weakness—covetousness. Realizing he might have had a particular problem in this area, we start noticing that it appears A LOT in his writings. 

In Part 3, we show how the ethical and moral values of the people were now based on what seemed right in their own eyes and we'll consider several ways in which the same thing could so easily happen in our lives.

The Seventh Day is about reflection of God’s glory in Creation, with music and poetry, and giving that back to each other and God and Christ.

Can a person proclaim Christ yet be fundamentally confused by his nature and relationship to God? Can someone be a “believer” and have some fundamental misunderstandings about first principles?