Many know the famous story of the walls of Jericho. Maybe you’ve seen the Veggie Tales version. If you went to Sunday school as a kid, you probably heard it there as well. It’s a very memorable story, found in Joshua 6: The Israelites were about to enter the promised land after 430 years of slavery in Egypt and 40 […]
Turn the other cheek. It’s one of the most well-known sayings of Jesus. Just about everyone has heard it; just about everyone has used it. But do we really understand what it means? It definitely shocked Jesus’ hearers. They lived in a war-weary land that was plagued by violence. In the last century alone, they’d suffered under the rule of […]
Three hundred and five. That’s the number of people killed in the most recent terrorist attack in Egypt. The death tolls always tend to be higher in the eastern part of the world, or maybe it’s just that the ones with “only” double-figure death tolls don’t make it into American news. That’s just an insane number. I admit that when […]
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