Two topics are often off-limits when meeting new people: politics and religion. People have their own opinion, and true exchanges of ideas are quite rare. After all, religions only divide people, right?
In today’s text, a Samaritan woman comes by herself to draw water at the well, much later than other women.
Read More Unity, Messiah, Jews, SamaritansTwo topics are often off-limits when meeting new people: politics and religion. People have their own opinion, and true exchanges of ideas are quite rare. After all, religions only divide people, right?
In today’s text, a Samaritan woman comes by herself to draw water at the well, much later than other women.
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The Jews traced their ancestry back to Abraham, a man who first came to Israel from Ur of the Chaldees (in present day Iraq) to settle in the Promised Land. They put a lot of stock in the fact that they were God’s chosen people, They were circumcised as a mark of this. When the Christian gospel came to people outside the Jewish faith, this raised a burning issue for the Jews.
Read More faith, acceptance with God, circumcision, gentiles, JewsHave you ever sought God for something and he refused to give it to you? A job? A house? A spouse? When I sensed God calling me to full-time ministry, I went to seminary. After I graduated, a local church in my home town invited me to serve as a pastor. It was there that God gave me clarity to the nature of his call on my life: it was to teach in the Christian academy.
Read More unanswered prayer, Jews, promisesWhen my father died several years ago, it was quite unexpected: he was vacationing with my mother in Jamaica. As it turned out, he died of what was a very treatable condition; but because he received the poorest of treatment in a very low-level hospital he had no chance.
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