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Copper is Green

on Jan 16, 2013 in Bible Study, Featured, Urbia

We have a lot of brown doorknobs around our house. Our house was built in 1904, so to say that they are the original doorknobs could be true or could be an innocent but incorrect guess. They could be original from when they did renovations in 1919, or after the great flood of 1937. Either way, they are old. If you asked anybody what they were made of, you might think they were brown. An adult would assume brass, or just some “metal” that is brown. The statue of liberty is green. And by green I mean PANTONE 15-5519 Turquoise green. It would be interesting to conduct a survey of people on the street to see how many people think that it’s always been green, or how many people think that copper is green. The bummer is, it’s been green for so long, I’m not sure that people can imagine it being copper. Sometimes, in an unexpected place, I have seen pure, raw,...

The Truth as Plain as a Fedex Truck

on Jan 28, 2009 in Bible Study

John 8.31-32 ‚ÄúSo Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in him,  ‚ÄúIf you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, 32 and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.‚Äù‚Äù Today we read that and we only have a figurative understanding of the word free, but to the people Jesus was talking to, they understood literally and practically what being set free was all about. Slavery and servitude was common, not to mention they lived in a land occupied by a foreign ruler, so they knew all about what it meant to be set free. That‚Äôs why they object when Jesus says, ‚Äúyou‚Äôll be free‚Äù because they think they are. ONCE AGAIN Jesus is challenging them to think differently, to look beyond the world they understand into something else. All too often, this v. 32 is used out of context to talk about the truth instead of Jesus who is The Truth. Honesty or understanding...