According to some sources, his full name was Yeshua bar Abba, (Jesus, the "son of the father"). Barabbas had been charged with the crime of treason against Rome—the same crime for which Jesus was also convicted. The penalty was death by crucifixion. What happened to Barabbas in the Bib...
Thalisa is one of a number of people convicted for blasphemy in recent years, most of them for insults to Islam. Indonesia is the world’s largest Muslim nation, where 231 million people, at least 93% of its adult population, identify as Muslim. ...
Murder on a Sunday Morning is about an African American boy who was wrongly convicted of murder. He was only fifteen years old when his life changed forever. While first watching the documentary, it seems to the audience that Brenton Butler, the convicted boy, is guilty. Mr. Stephens, husba...
S. Lewis warned about the “humanitarian theory of punishment” wherein justice is destroyed because we treat criminals as those who need a ‘cure’ instead of those needing their just deserts: https://billmuehlenberg.com/2016/11/21/crime-no-punishment/ Our revolving-door “justice” system ...
Seriously though, read what JD Vance wrote on that tweet. It reads like a Hitler speech… If Hitler was boring as shit, didn’t know how to order donuts, & sexually attracted to couches. And to let you know the fruit of these lies that fan the flames of racial fear and hatred, the...
Upon his return, he had another brain scan, and the enlarged part of his brain had shrunk significantly. While the experiment was not scientifically verified, the man’s experience warrants attention. What are we doing to ourselves by relying so heavily on technology? When silence becomes a ...
A friend of mine named Tim was preaching recently and he said that thanks to what Jesus has done for us through his life, death, and resurrection we are called to be “a force of reconciliation.” I really like this image. At first glance it’s an odd juxtaposition. The word “force...
“For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,4that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,5and that he appeared to Cephas,and then to the Twelve.6After that, he app...
First, there is the challenge of determining what actually happened nearly 2,000 years ago before the Sanhedrin and the Roman prefect of Judea, Pontius Pilate. The task is daunting1 because almost our entire understanding of events comes from five divergent accounts, each of which was written ...
Despite the great difficulties in chronology, many interpreters have come to conclude with theologian Joachim Jeremias that the Last Supper took place within the framework of a Jewish Passover meal where Jesus sought to prepare the disciples for what was to come. The church remembered this as ...