First, we should consider what churches mean when they say the phrase “Come as you are.” This phrase communicates that people ...

From the context of Matthew’s calling as one of the Twelve Disciples (Matthew 9:9), it is not surprising that most scholars ...

While he was at table in his house, many tax collectors and sinners sat with Jesus and his disciples; for there were many who followed him. Some scribes who were Pharisees saw that he was eating ...

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While he was at table in his house, many tax collectors and sinners sat with Jesus and his disciples; for there were many who followed him. Some scribes who were Pharisees saw that he was eating with ...

But Jesus was often eating and drinking with corrupt tax collectors and other disreputable sinners. He met people where they were and healed them. In addition, Jesus proclaimed that both law-keepers ...

When Jesus was walking through Jericho, he attracted a large crowd. In the crowd was a man named Zacchaeus who was short of ...

Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee, and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee stood ... tend to elevate our status as believers in Jesus to the point that those who don ...

Jesus could not have been more extreme if He tried. He gives them the ultimate personification of “good” in that culture — the Pharisee — vs. the most hated example of being “bad” in the tax collector ...

The "He Gets Us" campaign was previously a subsidiary of the Signatry, a Kansas-based non-profit organization also known as ...

Hannity’s clash with PETA's Ashley Bern got biblical Monday night as the pair clashed over Christian ethics around eating ...