“You do you” means that truth is constructed in my image. It means each person is free to create their own unique meaning in a world devoid of universal meaning. This is why “truth” is equated with au...  Read More

The calendar of feasts and holy days annually walk the people through the story of redemption, past, present, and future. This would continue until the Messiah came to fulfill it. The body and soul ar...  Read More

Click here for part two and here for part threeBeyond Skin Deep: The Sin of HamIntroductionA father-and-son at enmity, a hint of nudity, the air of conspiracy–the scene in Noah’s vineyard tent after t...  Read More

But what about the baby girls? They couldn’t be circumcised. Does that mean they were not included in the covenant like the boys?...  Read More

Priests are representatives of their God, which is why Israel had no priestess or goddess. The priest mediates between God and man. The mediator, as a symbol of his God, cannot be a woman for a God wh...  Read More

This year marks the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, a significant milestone in our nation's history. As Christians, occasions like this give us an opportunity to pause, reflect, ...  Read More

Who is Melchizedek, this shadowy king who moves through the biblical story? He appears out of nowhere, blesses the father of the faithful, collects a tithe, lives at Mount Moriah, and then vanishes....  Read More

There is an entire class of conflict entrepreneurs who spawn polarization, brush off nuance, and foster fights. The method for attention is to be intensely loved and intensively hated. This is accomp...  Read More

The vision of this empty deceit looks something like this: a young man sunken into a couch, vape pen in hand, Reese’s Cup flavored energy drink within reach, two screens running simultaneously, live b...  Read More

God’s world has many hidden or unappreciated forms contained in it, from the tiny creatures scurrying along the forest floor, to euphonious harmonies of backup singers, to nature and its proportion, a...  Read More

In 556 B.C. King Nabonidus inherited the land between the Tigris and Euphrates. This was a constantly disputed territory and a challenger arose to rival the rule of Nabonidus. The challenger’s name wa...  Read More

Whether you join social media or not, you must never join the ethos of social media, which is, as I once heard it put, like a person sitting in the back seat of a car going one hundred miles an hour, ...  Read More