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Chapter 1

Walking Blind: A Promise to the Dismayed

As modern technology improves, horizons shrink and we begin to know less, not more, because the complexity of everything is more than we can handle...

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Chapter 2

The Walk of Faith

All of us would like to know what's coming. We have plans, agendas, preferences, and fears. Without knowing the future, we tend to make inflexible plans...

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Chapter 3

Why I Believe in the Resurrection

He appeared to Cephas, and then to the Twelve. After that, he appeared to more than five hundred of the brothers and sisters at the same time...

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Chapter 4

Legal Certainty, Ethical Cowardice

The Challenge: I here examine a situation where people act according to what is legal rather than according to what is right...

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Chapter 5

Biblical Advice on Non-Religious Living

Carry each other's burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ. This advice applies to relationships in every area of life...

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Chapter 6

Transformative Community

In every community, there's always a time when it's necessary to engage in courageous confrontation to maintain integrity and foster growth...

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Chapter 7

Political Uses of Religious Zeal

In the passage below, the zeal of some Jews for their religion becomes the means by which they try to manipulate political authority...

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Chapter 8

Peter's Little Noted Statement About Peoples from Every Nation

God does not show favoritism but accepts from every nation the one who fears him and does what is right...

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Chapter 9

My God, You Are a Mussulman Man Like Me

This is about a conversation between an Afghan and a Christian about their respective faiths and what they have in common...

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Chapter 10

The Authority of Twelve Jewish Men

It is necessary to choose one of the men who have been with us the whole time the Lord Jesus was living among us...

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Chapter 11

The Greatest Social Critics of All Time

All are greedy for gain; prophets and priests alike, all practice deceit. They dress the wound of my people as though it were not serious...

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Chapter 12

The Bang and the Glory

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. This exploration examines the relationship between scientific discovery and faith...

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Chapter 13

A Strange Prophetic Sign of the World in Crisis

We tend to emphasize passages in the Bible that make us feel good about ourselves and our future. But there are other passages...

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Chapter 14

Biblical Sources of the First Amendment

The First Amendment to the US Constitution ensures freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition. Its principles have deep roots in biblical teachings...

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