How Christianity Forgot Hospitality
Isaiah 58:1-10 “Shout for all you are worth, raise your voice like a trumpet! Proclaim to the people their faults tell the house of Leah and Rachel and Jacob their sins! They seek me daily, they long to know my ways, like a nation that wants to act with integrity and not ignore the Law…
How Christianity Forgot the Eighth Day
Deuteronomy 5:12-15 (Inclusive Bible) Honor the Sabbath day and keep it holy, as YHWH*, your God, commanded. For six days you will labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to YHWH, your God. You will do no work that day, neither you nor your daughter nor your son nor…
How Christianity Forgot What it Means to Take the Name in Vain
Exodus 20:7 (Inclusive Bible) Do not utter the Name of YHWH* to misuse it, for YHWH will not acquit anyone who utters God’s Name to misuse it! Matthew 12: 31-32 (Inclusive Bible) Therefore, I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven, except for blasphemy against the Holy Spirit. Anyone who says a word…
How Christianity Forgot the Image/Imago
Mark 12:13-17 Some Pharisees and Herodians were sent after Jesus to catch him in his speech. The two groups approached Jesus and said, “Teacher, we know you are truthful and unconcerned about the opinion of others. It is evident you aren’t swayed by another’s rank, but teach God’s way of life sincerely. So: is it…
Hope In the Unseen
Romans 8:17-25 And if we are children, we are heirs as well: heirs of God and coheirs with Christ, sharing in Christ’s suffering and sharing in Christ’s glory. Indeed, I consider the sufferings of the present to be nothing compared with the glory that will be revealed in us. All creation eagerly awaits the revelation…