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Bible Commentary

These pages are to help with Bible interpretation, both by suggesting answers to questions that often arise and equally important, by guiding the reader to see the relevance of the passages to today’s world.  The commentaries are arranged in related groups. 

Journey into Joy Series –Spring 2011

Churches so often spend weeks preparing for Easter by placing great emphasis upon the Lenten season. But after Easter is over, the programming goes quickly on to other unrelated things. There’s not usually a correspondingly strong emphasis on the traditional Easter season which lasts from Easter Sunday to Pentecost. Andrew Walker in his book, Journey...

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Jesus Intercedes for Us

This series of pages was generated from a series of studies on John 17, Jesus high priestly prayer.   Our Wednesday evening intercessors' group studied this series together from May to September of 2012.  Besides my own study, resources for the series included: The key resource was Our Lord Prays for His Own by Marcus Rainsford, Kregel Classics,...

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Difficult Gospel passages explained

This collection of pages seeks to help the reader understand passages from the life of Jesus that are often considered difficult to understand and to do so in a way that is both faithful to Scripture and enlightening to the modern reader.

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Difficult Passages from the New Testament Letters explained

This collection helps to explain passages from the letters that the Apostles wrote that might be considered difficult to understand.  I seek to be faithful to the text, use a grammatical-historical type of interpretation, and make the result relevant to the reader today.     

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Old Testament Reflections and Difficult Passages

This collection of pages gathers writings that help readers to get a handle on troublesome passages and important concepts for understanding the Old Testament.  

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