An Eye for an Eye, a Tooth for a Tooth—Not Moses gave a curious command: “Show no pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.” This seems to be an excessive response when one is wronged, but given...
Video Review:The Devil’s Arithmetic Reviewed by Peter DeHaan The Devil’s Arithmetic, based on a book by the same name, focuses on narcissist American teenager, Hanna Stern (Kirsten Dunst). Although Hanna dismisses her Jewish heritage...
Clean versus Well There is a story of Jesus dealing with 10 lepers (leprosy is an infectious skin decease that eats away the flesh).Keeping their distance, as was the practice of the day, they call out to Jesus for help Jesus tells them to go...
Video Review: Genesis with Max McLean Reviewed by Peter DeHaan In Genesis with Max McLean, which was recorded live, Max McLean gives a dramatic recitation of the first 35 chapters of the book of Genesis from the Bible. As the quintessential...
The Meaning Behind the Names In ancient times, names were given to people for a reason, no matter how trivial.The meaning of the names of Jacob’s twelve sons gives great insight into the competitive struggle between his two wives, the...
More on Jacob’s Twelve Sons So, we know that Jacob’s twelve sons had four mothers: Leah was the spurned wife; Rachel was the favorite wife; Bilhah was Rachel’s maid and Zilpah was Leah’s maid. Here is their birth order and...
Jacob’s Twelve Sons…and Their Four Moms In Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat, a reoccurring theme is Jacob’s twelve sons. What is not apparent in Dreamcoat is that many of the sons were half brothers; Jacob was indeed the...
Video Review: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Reviewed by Peter DeHaan Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoatis a film adaptation of the popular and undying musical of the same name. Although initially written for children and...
God’s Love is Perfect and Unconditional God is the personification of love—and he loves us. God’s love is perfect. Some people look at their life, the good things they do and the bad things they don’t do, thinking that they are...
Was, and is, and is to Come In the apocalyptic account in the book of Revelation, it talks about the “beast,” saying that from the point of the end times, he “once was and now is not.” Compare that to the characterization...
