by Mathew Swora | Jan 22, 2017
I Cor. 2: 1And so it was with me, brothers and sisters. When I came to you, I did not come with eloquence or human wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God.[a] 2 For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him...
by Mathew Swora | Jan 17, 2017
Matthew 2:13 Now after they had left, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, “Get up, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt, and remain there until I tell you; for Herod is about to search for the child, to destroy him.”...
by Mathew Swora | Jan 12, 2017
“Since your canon (the Bible), your creeds and your core Christian beliefs are so ancient, doesn’t that also make them instruments or expressions of violence? After all, don’t they come out of eras and settings of religious chauvinism, imperial politics, and...
by Mathew Swora | Jan 10, 2017
You would think so, from what so many skeptics and non-believers have told me. As evidence they point to the Crusades, the Inquisitions, the Conquest of the Americas, and the Holocaust, all of which had religious elements to their rationales, and which targeted Jews,...
by Mathew Swora | Jan 5, 2017
After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east came to Jerusalem 2 and asked, “Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him.” 3 When King Herod heard this...
