Day: April 9, 2019
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Isn’t Hermeneutics Too Abstract to Matter in Real Life?*
I misread the situation at the intersection by the grocery store. I paid attention to the oncoming car’s turn signal (“There’s nothing like a turn signal. And that was nothing like a turn signal.”) instead of the fact that they were in the left turn lane. So I waited for the “oncoming traffic” before I […]
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Study Notes – Matthew 26 1-13
We are reading Matthew 26:1-13 for Sunday, April 14. This is Matthew’s version of the story of “the anointing woman” or “the anointing at Bethany.” [Discussion questions for this text are here.] Here are my notes on the text: CONTEXT AND BACKGROUND: This is the third in a series of five texts from Matthew’s gospel […]
Matters of Interpretation 