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Christmas sand

by Keith Bassham One of my Bible college teachers — I believe the course was Christology — was relating to us the unlikelihood of a Hebrew prophet’s ability to foretell the place of Messiah’s birth […]

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Tradition

by Keith Bassham A couple of months ago I introduced the young adults in my Sunday school class to Fiddler on the Roof. Tevye, the impoverished Russian Jew with a house full of daughters, was […]

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And we’re back

by Keith Bassham We received a few calls early in July from folks who thought their Tribune had been lost in the mail, or perhaps was otherwise misplaced. I thank those who noticed the absence […]

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Examined lives

by Keith Bassham If the story of Socrates is taken at face value, he was tried for teaching others, particularly youthful others, to learn for themselves and to ask challenging questions about “the way things […]

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Networks

by Keith Bassham Back in the days before flat screen displays became church foyer de rigueur, a typical BBFI church might display a world map showing its outreach. Sometimes lines would be drawn from the […]

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He was seen

by Keith Bassham When Paul wanted to rehearse some basic facts about the content of Christian belief in his first Corinthian letter (chapter 15), he used the word gospel.

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A game plan

by Keith Bassham As this issue of the Tribune goes to press, the Olympic Games in Sochi have displaced the Superbowl in the news, baseball pitchers and catchers are showing up in their training facilities […]

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Things that work

by Keith Bassham Last spring, my wife and I bought a nearly new car, and for the first time in a long time, we drive a vehicle manufactured in the current decade. One thing that […]