Old Testament; who cares?

At Westminster Reads we’ have read our way through the book of Hebrews and that has me thinking about how important understanding the Old Testament is if we want to really understand the New Testament. Sometimes Christians think of the Old Testament as unimportant or irrelevant or obsolete or worse still replaced even superseded by the New Testament. […]

Dishonesty is the best policy?

If we all named our favorite parable, I’d bet that the parable of the Dishonest Steward is not on anyone’s list.  It’s a difficult parable.   What is going on in this parable?  Joel B. Green in his commentary on Luke reminds us that we ought not to read this parable allegorically; that is trying to […]