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Old Yet New
Be Bible BrightBenjamin G. Moses I remember reading and being very confused by 1 Jn 2:7-8 the first time I read it on my own. The text says: “Beloved, I am not writing a new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you have had from the beginning; the old commandment is the word…
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The Foundation – The Need for Political and Cultural Awareness
Be Bible BrightBenjamin G. Moses This is a bonus article in the series on our need as Christians for political and cultural awareness. We have noticed that we need a basic, yet solid, understanding of the society we live in if we want to (1) avoid the sins that our culture subtly and not-so-subtly promotes, (2) address…
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Avoiding Sin – The Need for Political and Cultural Awareness
Be Bible BrightBenjamin G. Moses Sometimes we as Christians can want to cloister ourselves away from the world by not keeping up with what is going on in the world. We can think “I am not of the world… (which is true, see John 17:16) so I don’t need to pay attention to what is going…
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The New Covenant and the Gentiles
Be Bible BrightBenjamin G. Moses “‘Behold, days are coming,’ declares the LORD, ‘when I will cut a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah,’” – Jer 31:31 As a Gentile (someone who is not ethnically Jewish), knowing that I too can be part of God’s people is very important…
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Problematic VeggieTales Theology: The Dangers of Teaching Kids an Over-Simplified Anthropology
Copyright: ©1999 Big Idea Productions, Inc. A few days ago I was giving my daughter a bath, and I figured that it would be fun to play some music in the background. So, I reached into the cupboard and pulled out a CD of VeggieTales songs. The words of the first song astounded me. The song…
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So, What Do I Do with That? Part 2: The Bible as How Things Are
Sometimes our Bible reading can leave us profoundly stumped and not for the right reasons. In the first part of this series, we talked about biblical application, that applying what the Bible says is believing what the Bible says. In this second part, we will expand upon that idea and notice that the Bible is our…
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So, What Do I Do with That? Part 1: Applying the Bible
Reading the Bible can be hard work. There are difficult concepts and ideas to think through. Sometimes the Bible is just confusing because of locations, peoples, and historical realities that are now foreign to us. Yet we believe that God’s word is essential for us to live lives pleasing to him (Psalm 1; Matt 4:1-4; 2 Tim…
