Greg Boyd Talks God's Non-violence...

Dr. Greg Boyd is the keynote speaker for the upcoming Adventist Forum Conference in Silver Spring, Maryland titled Non-violence and the Atonement. In...
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John Gill's Exposition of Matthew...

Matthew 26:2 Ye know that after two days is the feast of the passover, and the Son of man is betrayed to be crucified.
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Doing Righteousness

Even before my daughter was born, one of my favorite things to do was to come home at the end of the day and read her a Bible story. Now I will admit...
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Messiah, the Game-Changer

Matthew wrote the Gospel to the Jews, his natives. The difference between him and Paul was that Paul was the “perfect” Jew before his conversion,...
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The Sermon on the Mount

The title “Sermon on the Mount” was apparently first given to Matthew 5-7 by Augustine of Hippo, but the specialness of this discourse was realized...
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"Teaching In Their Synagogues"

Our commentary this week is taken from A Commentary on the New Testament From the Talmud and Hebraica by John Lightfoot Matthew 4:23 - And Jesus went...
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The X-Rated Gospel

‘The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the Son of Abraham.’ That is Matthew chapter 1, v. 1—not exactly riveting stuff, is it...
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Exploring the New Jerusalem

I barely remember my several years as a teenager being a part of the Youth Sabbath School at the Walla Walla Seventh-day Adventist Church.  But a few...
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The Church Militant

Leading Question: How does one know which of the seven churches of Revelation offers the closest match to our own experience? For this week’s lesson...
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Sign, Text and Reader – Implications...

Umberto Eco,“In memoriam” (1932-2016)
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