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How to Read the Bible in Changing Times: Understanding and Applying God’s Word Today is unavailable, but you can change that!

How can words written thousands of years ago in different times and cultures apply to us today? Why do Christians obey certain commands in the Bible and ignore others? Some say commands to greet one another with a kiss or not to eat pork are merely “cultural” but then insist that commands related to divorce, homosexuality, or the roles of women and men apply for all time. Are we just picking and...

Jeremiah 29:11, which many Christians have claimed as their “life verse”: “ ‘For I know the plans I have for you,’ declares the LORD, ‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.’ ” This promise actually appears in a letter sent by the prophet Jeremiah to the people of Judah who had been exiled by King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon in the late sixth century BC. We can learn a great deal about the nature of God from this passage. We learn that God is faithful to his
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