Bible Study
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Proper 21 • Ezekiel 18:1–4, 25–32 • September 28, 2014
The preacher is encouraged to give attention to the rhetorical structure of the pericope that reconstructs a conversation between Yahweh and Israel through Ezekiel, although…
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Living in the Promises and Places of God A Theology of the World
In this discourse mutual witness is possible as the lives of both Christians and non-Christians function as a testimony to part of the story of…
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Proper 10 • Isaiah 55:10–13 • July 13, 2014
From Promise to Triumph
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READING ZECHARIAH WITH ZECHARIAH 1:1–6 AS THE INTRODUCTION TO THE ENTIRE BOOK. Contributions to Biblical Exegesis and Theology, 59. By Heiko Wenzel
Those who preach and teach from this, the longest of the Minor Prophets, will find Wenzel’s study to be invaluable.
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GRASSROOTS ASIAN THEOLOGY: Thinking the Faith from the Ground Up. By Simon Chan
He states his purpose as “to force a rethink on the way Asian theology is currently undertaken and in so doing to show the distinctive…
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Back to the Beginning Creation Shapes the Entire Story
So creation is more than a stage or scenery for God’s story. It is integral to the entire story. After all, the entire story is…
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Proper 23 • Hebrews 3:12–19
Sin becomes altogether too common and familiar and so “safe.” The writer to the Hebrews screams the contrary alert: Sin kills.
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Epiphany 5 • Isaiah 58:3–9a • February 9, 2014
When we put up an appearance of righteousness without attendant love manifesting itself in deeds for the neighbor, we only fool ourselves and, in the…
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A CHRISTIAN IN TOGA: Boethius— Interpreter of Antiquity and Christian Theologian. By Claudio Moreschini
How the world of thought fostered by Neoplatonists, pagan and Christian, was being integrated into theology by leading Christian thinkers of the early sixth century,…