That’s right. Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt, and all through the desert, but Moses did not lead God’s people into the Holy Land. Why not? That’s the subject of a spiritual conundrum posed by darcydee: My question to…
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Why Didn’t Moses Lead God’s People into the Holy Land?
Tagged with: Christianity, Egypt, God, Holy Land, Joshua, Moses, religion, Sinai, spirituality, the Bible, The Law, The Ten Commandments, water from the rock
Posted in Spiritual Growth, The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in Spiritual Growth, The Bible Re-Viewed
Don’t Look Back! Press Onwards and Upwards!
Nostalgia never seems to go out of style. Twenty- and thirty-somethings relive their carefree days of high school and college. Forty- and fifty-somethings yearn for their years of young adulthood, before their shoulders were weighed down with heavy burdens of…
Tagged with: Abraham, Dead Sea, don't look back, Exodus, freedom, Lot, Lot's wife, onwards and upwards, pillar of salt, seven spirits, slavery, Sodom and Gomorrah, the Bible
Posted in Spiritual Growth, The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in Spiritual Growth, The Bible Re-Viewed
Heaven, Regeneration, and the Meaning of Life on Earth
We’ve posted many articles recently about what happens to us when we die. However, to fully comprehend what death entails we need to understand the meaning of life. Why are we here on this earth, anyway? Why do we go…
Tagged with: Creation, Doctor Who, God, heaven, hell, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, neighbor, regeneration, spiritual rebirth, spirituality, the Bible
Posted in Popular Culture, Spiritual Growth, The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in Popular Culture, Spiritual Growth, The Bible Re-Viewed
Man, Woman, and the Two Creation Stories of Genesis
A reader named Kim left a long and thoughtful comment on my previous post, “What are the Roles of Men and Women toward Each Other and in Society?” This post is a response to that comment—which I’ll quote for you…
Tagged with: Adam, Creation, Eve, female submission, gender equality, gender roles, Genesis, male dominance, man, marriage, the Bible, woman
Posted in Sex Marriage Relationships, The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in Sex Marriage Relationships, The Bible Re-Viewed
Curses or Consequences: Did God Really Curse Adam and Eve?
There’s an idea afoot that God cursed Adam and Eve because they disobeyed him. But that’s not what the Bible says. The whole story unfolds in Genesis chapter 3. God had said to Adam, “You may freely eat of every…
Tagged with: Adam, curses, Eve, Garden of Eden, God, nakedness, pain, serpent, spiritual rebirth, spirituality, the Bible, tree of knowledge of good and evil, tree of life
Posted in The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in The Bible Re-Viewed
What does Jesus Mean when He Says we Must be Born Again?
How Can I Be Reborn? “No one can see the kingdom of God without being born again.” What the heck does that mean? People who ask you, “Have you been born again?” think that they’ve got it all figured out…
Tagged with: born again, Emanuel Swedenborg, evil, Jesus Christ, Nicodemus, reformation, regeneration, repentance, self help, spiritual rebirth, spirituality, the Bible
Posted in Spiritual Growth, The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in Spiritual Growth, The Bible Re-Viewed
Nations are People, My Friend!
On December 31, 2012, North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong Un, gave a New Year’s speech, vowing that his country would open up a new phase and make a radical turn-around in its economy during the coming year. He also made…
New Year’s Resolutions: Look before you Limp
New Year’s resolutions: they’re easy to make, and easy to break. In fact, according to a 2007 study by professor and psychologist Richard Wiseman, 88% of the people who make New Year’s resolutions fail to achieve their goal. (Click here…
Tagged with: battle, habits, New Year's Resolutions, Richard Wiseman, self-improvement, spiritual battles, spiritual warfare, spirituality, the Bible, towers, war
Posted in Spiritual Growth, The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in Spiritual Growth, The Bible Re-Viewed
The Immaculate Reception, and Other Religious . . . er . . . Football Myths
Fans of (American) football recently either celebrated or protested the fortieth anniversary of the most controversial play in the history of the sport. On December 23, 1972, with only 22 seconds left in an American Football Conference (AFC) divisional playoff…
Tagged with: football, Franco Harris, Immaculate Conception, Immaculate Reception, Jesus Christ, myth, Oakland Raiders, Pittsburgh Steelers, science, spirituality, sports, the Bible, Virgin Birth
Posted in Sports and Recreation
Posted in Sports and Recreation
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