God's Big Picture
“For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth” (Is. 65:17). In the New Testament the gospel of Christ is similarly described. Hebrews 10:20 says that the gospel is “the new and living way.” And Jesus said as he instituted the Lord’s Supper, “this is my blood of the [new] covenant” (Mt. 26:28). God is a God of newness. On the one hand he is the
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How (Not) to Read the Bible: Making Sense of the Anti-women, Anti-science, Pro-violence, Pro-slavery and Other Crazy-Sounding Parts of Scripture
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The expectation of the restored land has become focused on restored human beings. Jesus offered people ‘inheritance’, and greater possessions than they would have abandoned; but he regularly construed this in terms of human lives and human communities that were being renewed and restored through the coming of the kingdom.233 The pearl of great pric
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