Yes, the Bible is a comedy. Ancient Greek culture has had a “dramatic” impact on Western civilization and Christianity, and therefore the world.  For the ancient Greeks writing and putting on plays and dramas was an important part of their cultural life.  For these people there were only two types

There is this notion floating around that the God of the Bible is a blood-thirsty rage-aholic whose terrifying wrath can only be held off by the offering of blood.  Blood is the only thing that can pacify this God and throughout the Old Testament people offered Him or Her (but

This one comes out of a great conversation I had with a wonderful Christian friend of mine this past week about the Bible and our views of God. One of the things I get to do as a pastor and as a Jesus Follower is work really hard on healing

I’m pretty sure when most people think of the Ten Commandments – if they think of them at all – they don’t think, “Wow! What a vision!” I suspect that most people’s thoughts run more along the lines of dismissive irritation – with rules, with authority, etc. – and a

C.S. Lewis was a profound author, academic, and theologian.  Anything he wrote is well worth its place at the top of your reading list. Perhaps the most famous quote attributed to Lewis on the topic of humility is, “Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less.”

Aleksandr Sozhenitsyn was a captain in the Soviet Army during World War 2 and also spent eight years in the Soviet gulag prison system.  More importantly for us today, he is the author of one of the most important books ever written – The Gulag Archipelago (link to an abridged

Sometimes we can feel like it’s only the big things that matter and if we want our lives to matter we need to prioritize and give our lives to the big things. We can live our entire life believing that our significance is “somewhere out there.” I love that this

The Bible has a lot to share with us on the purpose of life from it’s combined centuries of experience and there seems to be a paradox that runs through these insights – a paradox on how we are to hold the purpose of our lives. The paradox of purpose

This is a continuation from the post about the word “sabbath” and sabbatical and is an extraction from an email we sent out earlier in the year. A pastors need for sabbatical is something that few people truly understand, which is why a second Hebrew word comes in really handy

The Bible is an incredibly diverse book with different literary genres, authors, perspectives, but there are common threads that hold it all together.  One of those threads that we see from the very beginning is the Hebrew word and concept of “Sabbath.” It is a word that means “stop,” “rest,”