Lance Brown
Did God Command Ethnic Cleansing?
God intended for the Jews to live in the land he promised them. The problem is: this land was already occupied by other people. In telling the Jews to “take” the land, did God command genocide or ethnic cleansing? This is a difficult and often misunderstood part of the Old Testament history. How can a…
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Did God Approve Slavery?
Critics of the Old Testament point to, what they think, is God’s endorsement of slavery. Others claim that the laws allowed people to trade slaves as if they were farm animals, and to treat them in the most despicable ways. This takes both the writing and the intent startlingly out of context. An honest assessment…
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Mother’s Day Message
Even though children are a gift from God, we don’t really OWN them in a conventional sense. God has given us the privilege to shape them, love them, prepare them, and then our job is to release them into the world, for His purposes. When we recognize that our goals for our kids should be…
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Is God Barbaric or Crude?
We often hear critics quote the Bible out of context, “An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth!” without understanding the implications that the Bible intends, and the Hebrews would have well understood. But if we dig a little deeper, we can see that, even in this, God’s desire to extend mercy…
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Is God’s Wisdom Timeless?
The western world continues to turn away from absolute truth. More and more, it only sees “relative truth” as foundational to life. On what basis can one claim that this world is governed by relative truth? Says who? And if that is true, what happens when your relative truth runs into your spouse’s relative truth?
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Is God a Moral Monster: Are God’s Commands Capricious?
The story of Abraham being commanded to sacrifice his son, Isaac, is a very puzzling story. What are we to make of it? We must first understand the context of Abraham life and God’s dealing with him. There are four important insights that will help us better understand this story.
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