Category: Writing
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RESOLVED TO RESOLVE
Today’s blog is not about New Year Resolutions, or what resolutions you should make or I might make. No, we’re not quite that far along yet. New Year’s Day is still on the horizon. Today’s Fresh Greenbean wants you to think about what categories of your life you will make resolutions about when the big…
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ADVENT WEEK 3 TRANSLATION
The third week of Advent focuses very heavily upon the repentance and baptism message of John the Baptist. It was very exciting to translate Matthew, Mark, and Luke all telling the same thing but with slightly different tellings. There are so many hermeneutical things which could be addressed in these passages–from the conclusion of the…
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ADVENT WEEK 2 TRANSLATION
Today I post what I translated last week in my Gospel Advent readings. These verses are very dramatic, featuring the conclusion of the frightening Olivet Discourse, Jesus predicting Peter’s denial, Judas’ betrayal and the Lord’s Supper. Curiously, the Gospel readings take a side trip away from Luke and over to John 8 for the “woman…
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ADVENT WEEK 1 TRANSLATION
As promised, I have posted my translation from the Greek New Testament of the Gospel readings for the first week of Advent. Luke 20:1-8 It happened on one of those days as he was teaching and evangelizing the people in the temple that the chief priests and the scribes with the elders attacked. They said…