Bible.org Blogs

  • Home
  • Engage|Women
  • Impact|Men
  • Heartprints|Children
  • NetBible
  • Home
  • Engage|Women
  • Impact|Men
  • Heartprints|Children
  • NetBible

Meta

  • Register
  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.org

Blogs

  • Home
  • Engage|Women
  • Impact|Men
  • Heartprints|Children
  • NetBible

About

  • Account
  • Bible.org Blogs
  • Bloggers Submission Agreement
  • Blogging Author’s Submissions Guidelines
  • Engage Authors
  • Engage Blog
  • Heartprints Authors
  • Heartprints Blog
  • Impact Authors
  • Impact Blog
  • Login
  • Logout
  • Members
  • Password Reset
  • Register
  • User
  • Heartprints

    No Little Pharisees!

    August 15, 2022 / 1 Comment

    I have been teaching children for just shy of 50 years. That is a lot of teaching. But have I been teaching them well? In recent years, I have had to stop and reevaluate the things I have said as I quoted God’s Word to the children. In doing so I concluded that there were times that if a child followed my teaching, they would come out more like a pharisee than a believer. How many times have we as teachers and parents been guilty of telling the children that God hates sin without emphasizing His great love for the sinner? The Pharisees had God’s Words in their mouths but…

    read more
    Suzi Ciliberti

    You May Also Like

    A girl taking a selfieDescription generated with very high confidence

    Praying for Heroines

    February 2, 2018
    What's on your Diet

    What’s On Your Diet Today?

    December 14, 2020

    Shaping Abstract Truths To Form A Firm Foundation – #1 Made in God’s Image

    June 10, 2016
  • Impact

    The Old Leaven of the Kingdom of Darkness

    March 24, 2021 / 0 Comments

    Generally, leaven represents sin in the Bible. Consequently, most offerings contained no leaven because unleavened bread represented Jesus in His perfect, sinless life in the flesh.

    read more
    Doulos Hal

    You May Also Like

    Wood

    March 14, 2022

    The Tabernacle of Moses – God’s Heavenly Pattern for our Spiritual Transformation – Part VIII: The Women of the Tabernacle

    August 25, 2020

    Shofar and Trumpet

    July 10, 2022
  • Engage

    Did God Really Say?

    October 3, 2019 / Comments Off on Did God Really Say?

    I attended grad school in San Francisco in the 90’s. Each week a group of Christian students, faculty, and staff would gather in one of the small classrooms on the top floor for our CMDS meeting. This room had a floor-to-ceiling view of the Golden Gate Bridge where I can still picture the cars driving Northbound towards Sausalito. I adored the cute rainbow-painted tunnel arcs where the bridge merged with Marin County. My beloved friend’s uncle had painted those rainbows there many years prior. Every week I sat at the back of the room next to the window, gazing at the orange bridge stretched over hundreds of boats below. Some…

    read more
    Salma Gundi

    You May Also Like

    Perspective and a Shifted Assessment

    June 7, 2017

    Are You Holding On for Dear Life or Living at God’s Speed?

    May 20, 2023
    vain imaginations

    Vain Imaginations

    April 20, 2021
  • Engage

    The Whole Law

    December 6, 2018 / Comments Off on The Whole Law

    After church one day an older woman approached me and said, “I didn’t see you in church today. I saw your husband take communion, but I didn’t see you take communion.” I responded, “You are correct. I did not take communion today.” To which she replied, “I’ve been sitting in the front row for years, and I know exactly who does and does not take communion.” I think she even ended with a, “Hmphh,” but I can’t confirm that. Now, I sometimes just blurt stuff out without weighing the consequences. Lucky for my husband in this moment I did more weighing than blurting. Not that I cared what she thought…

    read more
    Salma Gundi

    You May Also Like

    A Theology of Sleep

    September 17, 2020

    “Egalitarian” and “Complementarian”: What’s the Main Difference?

    July 22, 2014
    Girl on bridge

    Forced Sabbath

    April 2, 2020
  • Engage

    The Golden Rule

    August 4, 2017 / Comments Off on The Golden Rule

    We all know that “Two wrongs don’t make a right” and “A stitch in time saves nine.” These and other handy proverbs provide nutshell explanations of broader concepts. Even in first century Israel, people wanted short clarifications of complex things. In their pre-internet, pre-printing press era, Israelites exchanged information and got their educations by questioning Jewish Teachers, or Rabbis, in formal gatherings.   As a Rabbi, Jesus constantly fielded questions, even from know-it-all religious leaders (Mt 22.34-36). The Israelites had numerous rules, Mosaic Law and Talmud, while Gentiles had little if any familiarity with the Old Testament, and neither knew what to do. So, when a crowd gathered on a…

    read more
    Amy Leigh Bamberg

    You May Also Like

    Racing to the Front of the Line

    August 26, 2021

    Can the Portland Protests Actually Bring Change?–The answer from their own graffiti

    August 17, 2020

    Sudden Change AND The Aftermath

    September 6, 2017

Recent Posts

  • Asking God Questions
  • Powerful Love, Life Changing Love
  • It Is Okay to Be Ordinary
  • To Hold the Ropes
  • A Word To The Wise

Archives

Categories

  • Bock
  • Engage
  • Heartprints
  • Impact
  • NetBible
  • Uncategorized

Meta

  • Register
  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.org
2023 © Bible.org
Ashe Theme by WP Royal.