Matthew 13:33 – Some Helpful Questions
“The kingdom of heaven is like leaven…” If leaven is a symbol of sin, why would Jesus compare the kingdom of God to it? A few questions worth sitting with — Matthew 13:33.
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Why Does the Bible Have Two Calendars?
God gave Israel a calendar that began in spring. But spring depends on where you’re standing.
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From Puzzle Pieces to The Picture of Jesus Christ
The Bible can feel like a table full of dumped puzzle pieces — scattered, mixed up, and salted with fake pieces we mistake for real ones. So how does anyone ever see the picture? And what is the picture? It has a name.
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How Does God Speak To Us?
God spoke directly to the prophets — many times, many ways. So why does it seem he doesn’t speak that way to us? The question has an answer, and it changes where you go to listen.
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Is The Bible The Word of God?
Most of us equate the Bible with “the Word of God.” But how does the Bible itself define that phrase? Two passages answer it directly — and without a word of commentary added.
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How Did The Apostles Understand Psalm 119:105?
“Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.” We’ve read it a hundred times. But when the apostles read “your word,” they weren’t thinking about a book. Take another look.
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Simple Lessons From Highlights Magazine
Scripture looks impossibly complex to most of us. But a child with a Highlights Magazine uses exactly the right skills — connecting dots, spotting what doesn’t fit, asking where something’s wrong with the picture. The complexity isn’t in the text. It’s in the scattered minds we bring to it.
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Is There Value in Questions?
“Disciple” just means student. And students ask questions. Jesus asked them constantly — why, what, how, where, who. Even from the cross: “My God, my God, why?” What happens to us when we stop asking and decide we already know?
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Why Seven Feasts, but Three Seasons?
Seven feasts. But God specifically names three feast times — three seasons that group the seven. Why the distinction? One verse in James makes the grouping visible, and it changes how the whole calendar reads.
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The Importance of Understanding in Jesus Christ
We think of understanding as something you acquire — study enough, grasp enough, and eventually you understand. But the Greek word the New Testament uses for “understanding” means something different: unification. A bringing together of what was scattered. Connecting the dots is the literal meaning.
