bible
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This is the first entry in a series on odd and interesting passages of the Bible that are sure to raise eyebrows. But while they pique our interest, they also communicate important lessons about life and faith. Today: Saul & the Witch of Endor (1 Samuel 28:4-27) Here’s the cliff notes background of the story:
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“I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge — that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of
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Then an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Get up and go toward the south to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” (This is a wilderness road.) So he got up and went. Now there was an Ethiopian eunuch, a court official of the Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, in charge
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I’ve been amazed over reading about the story of Richard Holloway, former leader of the Episcopal Church in Scotland, who suddenly (it seemed at the time) resigned his position and became an outspoken skeptic of the Church and of Christians. He released his autobiography, “Leaving Alexandria,” recently and I’ve been reading the reviews in order
J.C. Newton 