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NUMBERS 18-20: LEADERS DIE AND THEN WHAT?

Leaders aren’t crazy if they speak to rocks, and BEWARE if a leader makes threats and hits those rocks! In today’s Journey Bible Project Blog, Greg Taylor draws three lessons from Numbers 18-20 about when leaders pass on listening to God, pass way, or pass anything else.

NO ONE WANTS TO TALK ABOUT STONING IN THE BIBLE

Today’s Journey Bible Project Blog is a powerful misdirect. We read the chapter and can’t get our eyes of a man being stoned, wondering why God would allow this, why Israel would do this. Don’t we put people to death for lesser things? And what is this text about fringes of garments doing together with this stark picture of a stoning. Read today’s blog and find out.

IS SIN A DEAD(LY) PROBLEM?

Today’s blog post in The Journey Bible Project covers one of the most difficult to understand texts in all of Paul’s writings, Romans 7. You can listen to sermons on Romans at our podcast.

ROMANS 5: THE WORLDS OF ADAM AND CHRIST

Today’s blog post in The Journey Bible Project calls us to imagine the worlds of Adam and Christ by looking at Paul’s world and what he was trying to do with the comparison between these worlds. You can read this blog or listen at our podcast.

ROMANS 1-4: WHAT IS GOD’S COVENANT JUSTICE?

This blog post in The Journey Bible Project digs into the first four chapters of Romans, looking at the vitally important concepts of the righteousness of God, sin, law, and faith. You can read this blog or listen at our podcast.

MATTHEW 25: I CAN’T GET THIS STORY OUT OF MY HEAD

One of the most remarkable stories of Jesus is found in today’s Journey Bible Project Blog, “The Sheep and the Goats,” from Matthew 25. What did Jesus mean for his first hearers to do? What are we to do with this tragic, hopeful story?

November 5, 2017
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MATTHEW 5: GOTTA DO BETTA THAN THE PHARISEES!

A big key that helps understand the Sermon on the Mount is to pay attention to Jesus saying, “For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven. In this post Greg Taylor points to six ways Jesus declares that we are to “surpass the form of righteousness” practiced by religious people.

September 20, 2017
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