Understanding Isaiah’s message requires exegetical tools and listening to him.
Author: Barry Newton
Barry has worked with congregations in Texas, California and Brazil. He and his wife Sofia have two sons. He believes we should love God above all and that to honor this principle will shape daily decisions and silence competing values. Furthermore, we ought to love people in those ways we would like to be treated.
The women left in fear. What?
If Mark ended his gospel at 16:8, what might he be trying to tell us?
Appreciating Leviticus
Exodus enables a quick and deep appreciation for this levitical handbook.
Clarifying Conversion Confusion
Whenever conversion narratives exceed a brief statement, Luke never limits describing the conversion to a simple statement about believing.
The other “I AM” statements in John
John’s usages of “I AM” both inform and invite pondering
A short handbook on love
In the English language we face a problem with the word love.
Are we special?
Science and probability point toward a Creator.
The anthropic principle
What should be make of our earth’s and universe’s special status?
Freed from barbed wire
We can be just like that sheep.
More literary keys for interpreting Revelation (Pt. 2)
What would happen if we would allow Revelation’s literary genre as well as both the immediate and greater contexts of its texts to guide our understanding of John’s Revelation? What would we learn? Picking up …