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It’s all our backyard
The parable of the Good Samaritan isn’t just about being good. It’s also about the need to stop pretending that we just are.
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Hoping for Justification
In the parable of the Good Samaritan, Jesus offers a picture of compassion and generosity, rather than self-protection.
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“Doctor, cure yourself!”
Jesus’s return home goes exactly as he expects. Which is to say, the people’s reactionary response is quite predictable.
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Does My Justification By Faith Mean I Can Do Whatever I Want?
I sat there, soaking it all in. My professor, with a voice full to the brim with boredom, introduced us to the controversy that wouldn’t die. Often described as The New Perspective on Paul, he guided us through a church fight over a single word. Now I understand why he was over it. At the…