Search results for: "culture-countercultural" (11)

The Levite’s Concubine: Human Depravity & The Complicity of Religious Authorities (Judges 18-21)

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The final episode in Judges is the most appalling event in Israel’s long slide into depravity, idolatry, and anarchy....

The First Murder (Genesis 4:1-25)

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Genesis 4 details the first murder when Cain kills his brother Abel in a fit of angry jealousy. Both brothers bring the...

Receiving God’s Blessing of Productivity Means Respecting Co-workers (Ruth 2:8-16)

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Prevention of harassment means not only creating a safe environment, but a productive one for those at risk. The...

The Economics of Radical Generosity (Acts 2:45; 4:34-35)

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There is continuing debate about whether or not these community summaries advocate a certain economic system, with some...

The Call to Warn Others (Ezekiel 33)

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Ezekiel chapters 18 and 33 serve similar thematic and structural functions within the book as a whole.[1]The call to...

Epilogue — Job’s Prosperity Restored (Job 42:7-17)

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The final section of Job contains a storybook ending in which many of Job’s fortunes are restored. Many, but not all....

Set Your Mind On Things Above: Heavenly Living for Earthly Good (Colossians 3:1–16)

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This call to reorientation means that we reshape our lives to think and do according to Jesus’ ethics in situations he...

Jesus, the Image of the Invisible God (Colossians 1:15–29)

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What difference does it make that we are bearers of the divine image in our work? One implication of this is that in our...

An Orienting Community That Practices the Ways of God’s Kingdom: Acts 2:42-4:32

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After Peter announces the Spirit’s creation of a new kind of community, Acts traces the rapid growth of such...

Missional Community (Acts 1:6)

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In the book of Acts, Jesus’ mission to restore the world as God intended it to be is transformed into the mission of...

John the Baptist Teaches Workplace Ethics (Luke 3:8-14)

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Much of Luke consists of Jesus’ teaching. As it happens, the first teaching in Luke is directly about work, although...