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Check Out the En-Gedi Resource Center Site

October 17, 2019 2 Comments

Shalom, all – I have some great news – we’ve finished moving hundreds of articles from my first ministry website, the En-Gedi Resource Center, to their new home at EnGediResourceCenter.com. They have also been updated and reorganized by topic to make them easier to find. This has been months of work, so I hope readers […]

Filed Under: Blog: Update Tagged With: Bible study, Biblical Thinking, Hebrew Words, Jewish Jesus, Lois Tverberg

Free Books on Greek & Hebraic Thought

December 1, 2014 6 Comments

As I research my next book, I’ve been reading up on Jesus’ Hebraic, Jewish culture and how it contrasts with the Western culture in which we live. I keep bumping into great books I haven’t seen before. I thought I’d share a couple that are free to read or download because they are out of […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Biblical Thinking, Biblical Worldview, Greek Thought

In the West, Man is Big and God is Far Away

September 7, 2014 Leave a Comment

I’m always fascinated by the question of what we need to know, culturally, to understand our Bibles better. So I enjoyed the essay at this link by James Kugel, a Jewish biblical scholar, about a fundamental disconnect between the worldview of the Bible and of our Western world today. It’s from an essay on Psalm […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Bible, Biblical Thinking, East vs. West, Eastern Worldview, Greek Thought, James Kugel, Religion_Belief, World view

Can God the Father Teach us About Masculinity?

June 16, 2014 8 Comments

It’s Father’s Day, and articles fill the internet about men who defied the masculine stereotype of being tough, distant workaholics. Changing diapers. Working at home. The world is a very different place nowadays than it was a few decades ago. The last place that many would look for inspiration for modern fatherhood is the Old […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Biblical Thinking, Family in the BIble, Women

Why the Daniel Plan Might Make you Fat

December 4, 2013 20 Comments

Have you seen the news for the latest breakthrough weight-loss program, The Daniel Plan, by Rick Warren? It’s a 40-day plan (like his other books) to help individuals and church groups take off the flab and get in shape. Like other Bible-based diet plans, it’s built on the story in the first chapter in Daniel. […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Bible times, Biblical Thinking, Biblical World, Food & Diet

Jewish Thoughts on Living Water

June 11, 2009 2 Comments

In rabbinic thought, the study of God’s Word is likened to water.

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Biblical Thinking, Living Water

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