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Another one bites the dust: The devil’s list and pastors who stumble.
“Pastoral ministry is unrelenting spiritual warfare.” - Nicholas T. Batzig A little over a week ago the news broke that yet another...
richieeparsons
Sep 25, 20245 min read
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What is the point of suffering and loss?
“If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world.”...
richieeparsons
Sep 23, 20248 min read
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Noah Part 4: Drowning
"He will swallow up death forever; and the Lord God will wipe away tears from all faces..." - Isaiah 25:8 Today we’re wrapping up a...
richieeparsons
Jul 15, 20247 min read
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Noah Part 3: The One I Didn't Want to Write
The writers of the Bible dedicated more time to the story of Noah and the flood than they did to either creation or the fall of Adam and...
richieeparsons
Mar 12, 20248 min read
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We Don’t Get Jesus
Well, I didn’t expect to interrupt the Noah series because of a Superbowl ad, but in a post-covid society, expect the unexpected, I...
richieeparsons
Feb 14, 20244 min read
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Noah Part 2: Dandelions
After initially thinking #Noah would be a three part series, I have extended it to five or six after more study. In Part 1, we honed in...
richieeparsons
Feb 5, 20246 min read
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Noah Part 1: The Hero They Needed
Over the next thousand years after the initial fall in the Garden of Eden, Mesopotamia seems to have devolved into a sort of Gotham on...
richieeparsons
Jan 10, 20244 min read
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Ghosts, Witches, and Vampires – it’s not Halloween, it’s the Old Testament
With Halloween being celebrated this week, I thought it’d be a nice opportunity to write about some of the weirdest stuff we encounter in...
richieeparsons
Oct 30, 20237 min read
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Bible 100 - You want to dive deeper into the Bible? Start here.
Spoiler alert – this article is going to be a bit more technical than the others up to this point. Frankly, I’ve written and re-written...
richieeparsons
Oct 4, 20235 min read
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What's up with Revelation 12?
I had planned to begin a new series on Jude today, but this past weekend I heard a sermon that used Revelation 12 as a supporting text...
richieeparsons
Aug 21, 20238 min read
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The Twist Everyone Missed
“Torah spells out the coming of this man. It’s dogma and tradition that have misunderstood the picture from scripture...” – Jairus (The...
richieeparsons
Aug 2, 20234 min read
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When Worlds Collide
"Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, left the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness" - Luke 4:1-13 I just can’t read this...
richieeparsons
Jul 25, 20236 min read
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The Unscholar: Read the Bible Differently
Welcome to The Unscholar! If you want to dive deep into the Bible, where it comes from, what influenced it, and who wrote it, then follow...
richieeparsons
Jul 21, 20232 min read
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