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January 27, 2023
There are a couple dozen mentions of Jesus touching people when he healed them. The healing Jesus did was personal, one-on-one.
January 25, 2023
God's law offered protection to anyone who had harmed another and feared that an aggrieved family member (an avenger of blood) might take revenge for his loss.
January 25, 2023
We are pleased to announce that Treasure in Paradise by Anna Tikvah is now available to order on Amazon in both paperback and e-book formats.
January 8, 2023
Sharing a few thoughts on the different ways to say, "I love you".
December 23, 2022
Presiding is perhaps the most important duty on Sunday morning—even more important to the memorial meeting, as a whole, than exhorting.
December 22, 2022
There she was in bed, dying, and the next thing she knows, she is here.
November 25, 2022
Many of us are familiar with archaic English only from reading the King James Version of the Bible, such as "thou" and "thee" instead of "you," and all the strange verb forms ending with "eth" or “est.” Where did such words come from? Why did they disappear? And is there any reason to perpetuate them today?
November 24, 2022
Often the mention of publicans comes as part of a set: “publicans and sinners”. What is so bad about running a public house, that it becomes almost synonymous with being a sinner?
November 3, 2022
None of the four accounts of Jesus's last 24 hours gives us the complete picture. We have to do some assembly, and even then we find there are some gaps and some details that take a bit of work to reconcile. Why make it hard? Well, maybe to make us think through, think beyond.
October 25, 2022
First, you'll have to understand what it was like when my mother was growing up in the depths of the Great Depression.