Avoiding Confrontation

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John (although Jesus Himself was not baptizing, but His disciples were), He left Judea and went away again into Galilee.John 4:1-3  NASB Went away– What was Yeshua’s reaction to the probable confrontation with the Pharisees over baptism?  Ah, apérchomai.  He went away. He didn’t enter…

Shake It Up, Baby

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

And I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth passed away, and there is no longer any sea. Revelation 21:1  NASB Passed – Things aren’t always what they seem.  If we’ve learned anything from the last decade of New Testament scholarship, we’ve learned that the previous…