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Wednesday, December 31, 2025

Top 10 Posts of 2025

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Did any of our most-read posts in 2025 have a consistent theme? Not really. Well, maybe. Three of our most popular offerings this year c...
Tuesday, December 30, 2025

Inbox: Unlikely Translations

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Commenting on an older post , Christopher writes: “I just came across this essay years after its initial posting. Thanks for the thought...
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Monday, December 29, 2025

Anonymous Asks (386)

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“Why did Job’s wife tell him to curse God and die ?” The day the Sabeans killed Job’s servants and took all his oxen and donkeys was the...
Sunday, December 28, 2025

Representative Heads in Contrast

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One man can have a tremendous effect on many. One act can transform history. The apostle Paul considers the effect of two men who lived ...
Saturday, December 27, 2025

No King in Israel (39)

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Judges were not kings. We have seen that they performed some functions we expect of royalty: leading the army, delivering the nation from ...
Friday, December 26, 2025

Too Hot to Handle: The Social Gospel and Social Justice

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In which our regular writers toss around subjects a little more volatile than usual. Tom: Immanuel Can, I’m going to quote from my fav...
Thursday, December 25, 2025

What It’s All About

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As I’ve gotten older, I’ve come to appreciate some surprising things. In my twenties, I finally “got” Shakespeare. How many people, like ...
Wednesday, December 24, 2025

Christmas Dreams, White or Otherwise

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I had a dream. No, not like MLK. That’s more of what we call a vision than a dream. Mine was nothing inspiring or quotable. Just a regu...
Tuesday, December 23, 2025

Subverting or Perpetuating

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There is a good reason I try not to do a lot of speculating. Hypothetical situations are like tar babies: touch them, and you will not get...
Monday, December 22, 2025

Anonymous Asks (385)

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“What does the Bible say about the three wise men?” The Christmas story as we know it is a composite of information passed on by the wri...
Sunday, December 21, 2025

A Flipped Script

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“I, Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles  …” This might seem a strange statement if the book of Acts did not famil...
Saturday, December 20, 2025

No King in Israel (38)

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Abraham gave Isaac to God and ended up the father of eight sons by three different women. He received Isaac back as well. Hannah dedicate...
Friday, December 19, 2025

Too Hot to Handle: The Gospel Meeting

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In which our regular writers toss around subjects a little more volatile than usual. On the subject of the gospel meeting, Mike Willis ...
Thursday, December 18, 2025

The Mythical Native

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So you’re speaking to someone about the gospel. And suddenly he gets that ironic glint in his eye. He folds his arms, steps back and says...
Wednesday, December 17, 2025

Sound Advice from a Secular Source

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Consider the source, but not too much. The word of God is full of good advice. So full, in fact, that many of us regularly take biblica...
Tuesday, December 16, 2025

The Best Possible Place

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There is a time-honored tradition in Old Testament oratory of addressing one’s enemies from the safety of a nearby hilltop. Jotham cal...
Monday, December 15, 2025

Anonymous Asks (384)

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“What does it mean that a friend’s wounds are ‘faithful’?” The line comes from one of Solomon’s later proverbs. In full it reads, “ Fait...
Sunday, December 14, 2025

Timing is Everything

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God’s timing is always impeccable. The gospel spread like wildfire in the first century precisely because God had put all the pieces in ...
Saturday, December 13, 2025

No King in Israel (37)

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Truth is objective and its importance paramount. Technical precision is one aspect of truth and its importance situational. On several occ...
Friday, December 12, 2025

Too Hot to Handle: The Correct Church

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In which our regular writers toss around subjects a little more volatile than usual. In 2002, Julie Staples (for the Protestant side) d...