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We Turned Jesus Into a Thing

Fourteen ninety-nine for a fifty pack, at the largest Christian bookseller online. The price tag is the most honest thing in the building. How the person became inventory, what got sold off in the trade, and the question the men at the front owe an honest answer.
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The Gospel You Were Handed. Was It Real?

The answer most of you will get is true in nearly every sentence, and the word covenant is not in it. A dare, the paragraph it produced, and what was standing in its place before any of us got here.
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True Worshipers

Colossians 3:16 sent me looking for the psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs of Scripture, from the Song of Moses to the song of the Lamb. Who we worship matters, and so do where, when, why, and how.
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I Have Been Screaming the Wrong Word

Rome mediated, and burned the men who handed out keys. Protestants gatekeep. For years I aimed the first charge at the second church. This is the correction, and the word Yeshua actually used.
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Audacity

This essay is a meditation on the working life of Ya'akov ha-Tzaddik
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There Were No Jews at Nicea

There were no Jews at the Council of Nicea. That absence was not an accident; it was decreed by one empire, defended in the emperor's own letter, and enforced for centuries. What the severance cost, who carried the thread anyway, and why the whole record is evidence for Yeshua, not against him.
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We needn't see in a mirror dimly

Paul was quoting the Torah in Numbers 8
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Titles He Refused

Yehoshua accepted every name that described work he was doing and refused every name that would have frozen that work into a chair only one person could sit in, which is why calling him a rabbi hands him both an office that did not yet exist and one of the three titles he explicitly declined. The refusal was a governing rule about how his people would organize themselves rather than a gesture of modesty, and the movement that preserved it abandoned it within three centuries.

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