When Jesus' disciples ask him what sins caused a particular man to be born blind, Jesus shockingly says it happened not because of sin but because God wanted an opportunity to glorify himself. After Jesus heals him, the contest between the man, his family, the...
The final chapter in the story of the Bible (in other words – the story of human history) is God coming to live with his people on the new earth. God's goal was never to take a disembodied people up to live with him in heaven, but to come and live with us on...
Jesus conversation with the Samaritan woman should never have happened – it just wasn't appropriate. But Jesus ignored the appropriate to rescue the lost person hidden behind the cultural barriers that imprisoned her and kept her from redemption. He does the...
The heart of Buddhism is the Four Noble Truths: the reality of suffering, the reality of desire, the goal of nirvana, and the solution of the eight-fold path. In the case of suffering and desire, Buddhism and Christianity agree that all of life is broken, and at the...
The 1,000 years of Jesus' rule and reign appear only here in Scripture, so it would be a mistake to put too much weight on any one supposedly definitive interpretation. But what is clear in Revelation 20 is that Satan is finally defeated, Jesus' victory begun...
