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Wicked: A Christian Perspective

Christian Themes

Wicked: A Christian Perspective

I watched the recently released movie Wicked and thoroughly enjoyed it. The movie is an adaptation of just the first act of the stage show, which I have not seen, so my knowledge of the entire story is limited. Despite my lack of familiarity, I wanted to share my thoughts

A Kingdom of Priests: The Mosaic Covenant

A Kingdom of Priests: The Mosaic Covenant

After God made his covenant with Abraham, he renews the same covenant with Abraham’s son Isaac, and then again with Isaac’s son Jacob. God gives Jacob the name Israel, meaning one who wrestles with God or one who strives with God. Jacob’s descendants end up in Egypt

Shrewdness: How to Honor God With Our Money

Christian Living

Shrewdness: How to Honor God With Our Money

The Parable of the Shrewd Manager is a parable of Jesus found in Luke 16 and one that I had a lot of difficulty understanding for a long time. If you read through the parable I believe your initial impression will be that this character is acting pretty immorally, but

Why Are There No Pastors in the Bible?

Why Are There No Pastors in the Bible?

Every church looks a little bit different depending on the denomination of Christianity they are a part of. Some hold their services in ornate buildings filled with art and stained glass, others in simple buildings with wooden pews, still others in school gymnasiums with folding chairs. Some have strictly regimented

Christian Themes: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Christian Themes

Christian Themes: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

It is no new discovery that C.S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia is a profoundly Christian work and contains many Christian themes within its seven parts. I never read these books as a child but as soon as I read them as an adult I wished that I

Loving the Word

Christian Living

Loving the Word

Psalm 1 teaches us that we are blessed when we spend time meditating on God’s word. The psalm even compares this to being like a tree planted by a stream. If we are a tree, then the word of God, the Bible, is our source of water.

Blessing to the Nations: The Abrahamic Covenant

Blessing to the Nations: The Abrahamic Covenant

The Abrahamic covenant is the most important covenant in the Old Testament and remains vitally important for our understanding of the New Testament. The craziest part of Abraham’s story is that God chose him for seemingly no reason. God surely had his own reasons, but he does not share

God's Covenant with Noah and the Flood

God's Covenant with Noah and the Flood

The story of Noah begins several generations after Adam and Eve and starts not with Noah himself but with God. God recognizes that everyone in the world is sinful and they do not honor Him, except for Noah, who is called righteous. God’s plan to solve this problem is

What the Lord's Prayer Teaches Us About Prayer

Christian Living

What the Lord's Prayer Teaches Us About Prayer

The Lord's Prayer is a well-known and often recited prayer that comes directly from Jesus teaching the disciples how to pray. It appears during Jesus's Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5-7 during which Jesus first teaches about the kingdom of heaven and the values of that kingdom.

Why Care About Covenants

Why Care About Covenants

Why should Christians care about covenants? They make up a very small proportion of the Bible, yet I would argue their importance is much greater than the meager amount of mention they receive. Why are they so important and why should Christians care about them this much? The answer is