What Jesus and James Said About Money
This weekend more than half a million people filled the streets of France. Diesel is at multi-year highs, where one in seven fuel stations has run sho...
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Did you ever notice that Jesus stays silent on many issues Christian's support? Somewhere along the way in my faith journey, I realized I knew Paul's theology better than I knew Jesus's actual words. That bothered me. Faith Atlas is my attempt to fix that — for myself and for anyone else who's felt the same way. We put the Gospels first and everything else, in context.
Your Brain on God Part 1: Lectures by William James
Who was William James Psychologist, philosopher, and a founder of American pragmatism, William James taught at Harvard and wrote The Principles of Ps...
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When Jesus invites us into a relationship with him, it's a strange invitation. Think about what it asks. To be in relationship with God is to stay in...
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For the last few days I've felt like less of a man. Nothing dramatic has happened and this isn't the beginning of a long drawn out epiphany. There wa...
Read more →Babel and the Problem of Atrocity
We live in an era defined by modern towers of Babel—architectures of collective human genius that simultaneously threaten our undoing. We build artifi...
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John Nelson Darby and the Case Against Dispensationalism
If you grew up in American evangelicalism, the end-times story felt like common sense. You probably know the beats by heart: a sudden, secret rapture ...
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Why the Middle East Crisis Isn't the Apocalypse You Think
Whenever headlines in the Middle East spiral into open conflict, prophecy watchers immediately reach for Ezekiel 38 and 39. The passage describes a t...
Read more →Why Jesus Started With Repentance (And What We Get Wrong About It)
There is a reason the first recorded public words of Jesus are the exact ones most people rush past. "Repent, for the Kingdom of God is at hand." Wh...
Read more →Do You Follow Jesus or Paul?
It is one of the most stubborn debates in modern biblical study: Did the Apostle Paul hijack the message of Jesus? To anyone casually turning pages, ...
Read more →Why the Sermon on the Mount Is Far More Radical Than You Think
When you open the Gospel of Matthew and run your eyes across the Red Letters in chapters 5 through 7, you aren’t just looking at warm moral advice or ...
Read more →What Jesus Actually Taught About Your Wallet
In a world that measures success by the size of a portfolio, the Red Letters of the Gospels offer a perspective that is as challenging as it is refres...
Read more →Humanity and Blood Sacrifice
Across the ancient world, whether you stood in the courts of the Jerusalem temple or before the smoke-filled altars of imperial Rome, worship had a so...
Read more →Spirits in the Wilderness
The Temptation of Jesus begins (verses 1-11) after Jesus' baptism, the Spirit leads him into the wilderness where he fasts for 40 days and nights. The...
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