by Lilly Hawkins | Sep 13, 2024 | Feature-, Opinion
My childhood was spent in Sunday school classrooms on the second floor of an annex. Off the side of the church, above the parish hall, the annex held a hallway that on Sundays became full of life. Every child from first to fifth grade was seated in their classroom...
by Patrick.Adair | Aug 28, 2024 | Feature-, Opinion
Editor’s Note: The following appears in the September/October 2024 issue of Nurturing Faith Journal. “After him came Shamgar the son of Anath, who struck down six hundred Philistines with an oxgoad; and he also saved Israel.” – Judges 3:31 Twelve days after the...
by Hetty Lalleman | May 16, 2017 | Opinion
The Bible is not an easy book to read. Christians tend to select the passages that are positive, encouraging, reassuring. Some Psalms, parts of Isaiah and of course the New Testament (except for Revelation). But what about the Old Testament parts that contain lists of...
by Larry Eubanks | Sep 12, 2014 | Opinion
Imagine that you and a friend decide to go see a movie, but you misread the schedule and arrive an hour into the film. Would you still go in and watch the last half of the movie? Of course not. No one jumps into the middle of a movie and expects to understand what is...
by Greg Mobley | Jun 11, 2013 | Opinion
The prophetic performances of the classical Hebrew prophets have been collected in a series of scrolls. Written texts were simply the Iron Age’s version of a recording device. All manner of oral performances – stories, priestly teachings, songs, prayers,...
