Thanks to all of the local 1208 Greenwood artists who made our sometimes-playful, sometimes-serious, multi-genred, Narnia-themed, Christmas album! It was so much fun to make. Here’s a look at the tracks: Tell Me a Myth | An acoustic song about finding God in the mythological parts of the Bible and Narnia. Green Green Christmas |…
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Sometimes we miss what the Bible is saying because we tend to read it in short bursts of verses and passages, rather than read any of its 66 books straight through or in large portions. For example, if you read Matthew in a few sessions, you’ll see the hilarious story of, “The Dim-Witted Disciples Forgot…
While God knows all things, he still likes to co-labor with us. The Bible shows us that he even does this with heavenly beings. In 1 Kings 22, when God decides that it’s time for an evil king to go, he asks the heavenly host how he should do it. Eventually an angel proposes an…
The Bible is always cultural as God speaks to people in their culture and not in the vacuum of it. And so when we read it, we need to keep in mind that the Bible was written “for us,” but not “to us.” It was written for us to read, but not directly to the…
In 1 Corinthians 11, Paul tells women they need to wear head coverings for two reasons: (1) “Because of the angels,” and (2) because long hair is a woman’s glory. On the other hand, long hair for men is a disgrace and they are supposed to have short hair. What on earth is going on…
According to Deuteronomy 32:8, when God split the nations up at the Tower of Babel, he granted some of the beings of Heaven that he had created to rule over the different nations of the world while he turned his attention to the nation Israel. Had these little-g-gods done their job rightly, they would have…
Today is a day of resurrection! Not a day where Jesus simply came back to life as though resuscitated, but a day in which Jesus was given a new spiritual/physical and immortal body that sometimes wasn’t recognized by his own disciples; could seemingly warp around different areas at will and vanish in and out of…
To the Greeks, Tartarus was a spiritual prison in the underworld where the Titans were locked up. In the Bible it was the place where God locked up the angels that created the giants of the Old Testament (like Goliath). Genesis called these angels the “sons of God” and Jewish literature said that their judgment…
The Last Supper was a Passover meal and in Jesus’ time, the Passover meal had several traditions, including four cups of wine to be drunk throughout the night and certain types of food to be eaten, with everything representing a different theme. Jesus followed these traditions, but gave many of the foods new meaning. The…
The gods of ancient times told humanity that they were, more or less, slaves—created by the gods to do their bidding. They made humanity to bring them food, drink, clothing and housing, and so if humanity was willing to provide for them in such ways, the gods would return the favor by giving them care…
