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September 2020
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Articles:
The Overlooked and Ignored – pg. 1
Question the Question – pg. 2
God is Love – pg. 5
To Seek and Save that Which is Lost – pg. 6
The Prodigals – pg. 7
Quotes & Connections – pg. 8
Winter 2015
Articles:
God...More Than a "Christian"? -p4
When Poetry Devolves into Doctrine -p8
He's There For You & With You (God With Us)- p10
Why I Still Believe in God -p18
How the WORD Read the Word -p23
God Is Just Like Jesus - p25
God Is Love...and Love Never Ends -p26
You Are Worth More than Chewing Gum! -p31
Fall 2015
Articles:
Responding to the River of God's Grace -p4
Reading the Bible as an Epic Story -p8
Everything Happens for a Reason...Or? -p9
Giving Thanks to the Master -p11
Millennials and Money -p14
Don't Water it Down -p16
"Are you saved?" -p17
Jesus IS What God Has to Say -p19
Inspiried, Infallible & Inerrant? -p20
Does Recovering from Religion Have to be Morose p25
Are Bible Verses the Worst Thing Ever? -p26
Disarming Scripture -p28
Defending the Bible? -p31
Sep-Oct 2015
Articles:
Can We "Make" God Love Us More or Less? - page 1
God Gave Them Over... - page 2
The Bible Says It...but Does That Settle It? - Page 4
Reading & Understanding the Bible... Part 4 - page 6
Whiskey & Cigars? - page 7
Summer 2015
Articles:
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For -p4
Would you Choose the Truth Over Christ? -p11
Would you Choose Christ Over the Truth? -p12
"The Bible clearly says..." -p13
You Can't Imagine How Much He Loves You -p15
The Church As We Know It -p17
Regret--the Silent Killer -p18
Rx for Remorse, Regret, Resentment -p22
In the Shadow of the Mushroom Cloud -p24
Behaving Badly -p26
The Calf Path -p30
The Only Way to Really Get It -p31
Does the Bible Teach Love or Hate? Peace or Violence? Derek Flood
In discussing my new book on violence in the Bible, which focuses on reading the Bible from the perspective of peace and love, I often hear this objection,
"But doesn't the Bible speak of God's wrath?"
or
"But doesn't Jesus use fear and threat to motivate people?"
or
"What about this verse here [fill in the blank] that seems to promote violence?"
All of these questions are asked by people who want to believe in compassion, who see the moral problems with fear and threat as moral motivators, who recognize the problem with the connection between religion and violence. They want to have a Bible that is just about grace and peace and love. They ...
God said it, but that doesn’t settle it: Questioning the Bible – Derek Flood
I've been noticing a growing trend of people who are becoming increasingly troubled and unsatisfied with a literalistic approach to the Bible. The objection they have is a moral one: They observe that a "straight forward" and "plain" reading of Scripture inevitably leads people to do things that are against their conscience, against the most basic understandings of morality, and to justify doing these immoral things "because God said it, that settles it." In short, we've learned to read the Bible in a way that makes people immoral and proud of it.
One example of this is corporal punishment of children. Many parents feel that it is wrong to hit ...
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