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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. We feel dismayed at our helplessness and the impossibility of seeing what is ahead.
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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 that we want God to ratify. But God would like us to step forth without knowing what's coming.
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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 at the same time, most of whom are still living.
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Chapter 4: Legal Certainty, Ethical Cowardice
The Challenge: I here examine a situation that arises from a conflict between legal certainty and ethical fairness. Let me lay out the case: there are thousands of Jewish emigrants from the former Soviet Union who have migrated to Germany since the late 1980s.
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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. If anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
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Chapter 6: Cultural Transformations: A Fresh Paradigm
Cultural Transformations: A Fresh Paradigm
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Chapter 7: Political Uses of Religious Zeal
In the passage below, the zeal of some Jews for their heritage is used by political operators for their own ends. Sound familiar?
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Chapter 8: Peter's Little-Noted Statement About Peoples 'From Every Nation'
God does not show favoritism but accepts those from every nation who fear him and do what is right.
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Chapter 9: My God! You Are a Mussulman Man Like Me!
This is about a conversation between Christians and Muslims. I had come from the U.S. to Azerbaijan to help train students in conflict resolution for the International Institute of Sustained Dialogue.
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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 went in and out among us... for one of these must become a witness with us of his resurrection.
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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. 'Peace, peace,' they say, when there is no peace.
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Chapter 12: The Bang and the Glory
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
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Chapter 13: A Strange Prophetic Sign of the World in Crisis
We tend to emphasize passages in the Hebrew Bible (OT) which look forward to the coming of Jesus as King Messiah. But there are also passages pointing to the end of this age, when he will be revealed as the Ultimate Judge.
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Chapter 14: Biblical Sources of the First Amendment
A) Christianity is the National Religion: In the mid-19th Century, some Christian persons pressed for a Constitutional amendment to recognize Christianity as our 'national religion.'
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