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Jesus Our Advocate

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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Each day this month of August we’ll be looking at one of the extraordinary metaphors that the Bible uses to illustrate the nature of our relationship with God. “If anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous” (I John 2:1). Q: What do you call… Read more »

Falling Down Beside Us

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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here It’s no surprise that Bible translators sometimes struggle.  Their task is to take the words of ancient languages – Greek, Hebrew, and Aramaic – and transform them into the everyday parlance of contemporary people living in entirely different cultures. For example, there’s the Karre language of equatorial Africa.  How could the… Read more »