by Mathew Swora | Feb 19, 2017
Matthew 5: 21: “You have heard that our ancestors were told, ‘You must not murder. If you commit murder, you are subject to judgment.’ 22 But I say, if you are even angry with someone,[d] you are subject to judgment! If you call someone an idiot, you are in danger of...
by Mathew Swora | Feb 19, 2017
Luke 2: 22 When the time came for the purification rites required by the Law of Moses, Joseph and Mary took him to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord 23 (as it is written in the Law of the Lord, “Every firstborn male is to be consecrated to the Lord”[b]), 24 and to...
by Mathew Swora | Jan 29, 2017
Think carefully. They came from a backwards, war-torn region to the East, fleeing violence like what has torn up Syria and Yemen of late, much of it religiously-based. They were themselves quite religious, but in ways that seemed alien, even threatening, to the people...
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...
