Subject index to the Christian Odyssey website

• Ancient words...but ever true?
       Can we still trust the Bible?
• The Dead Sea Scrolls—60 years later
• Do we have the right books in the Bible?
• Evidence of Black Africans in the Bible
• Loaded Bibles and made-up minds
• Is the Bible just a white man's book?
• Puzzle and Premises
• Should you take the Bible literally?
• Which is the best translation?
   
• No contest: Why the argument over Genesis?
• Matthew 9: The purpose of healings
• Matthew 16: What kind of Messiah?
• Lessons from Mark - a series of 31 lessons
• Mark 8:27-38: Everyone must die! Greek word: Christos
• John 1: The Word made flesh
• John 2: Turning water into wine
• John 3: An odyssey of faith
• John 4: True worship
• John 6: Let nothing be wasted
• John 9: A blinding light
• John 10: Which voice do you hear?
• John 11: Lazarus, come out!
• John 14: In his name
• John 19: Crowned with thorns
• Romans 8:18: The glorious freedom
• 1 Corinthians 1: The wisdom of weakness
• 1 Corinthians 15a: Will we live again?
• 1 Corinthians 15c: The resurrection body Greek word: psychikos
• 2 Corinthians: What Paul wished members knew about ministers
• Galatians 1: The gospel revealed
• Galatians 2: Justified by faith, not by law
• Galatians 3: Redeemed from the curse of the law
• Galatians 4: Born of a woman
• Galatians 5: The purpose of freedom
• Galatians 6: Do good to all  Greek word: katartizo
• Ephesians 5: Christian life and marriage
• Philippians 2: Learning to live like Jesus
• Colossians 1: Already in the kingdom
• Colossians 2: Victory on the cross
• Colossians 3a: New clothes for new people
• Colossians 3b-4: Relationships in and out of the church
• 1 Thessalonians. 2: We were not a burden Greek word: ekklesia
• 1 Thessalonians 3: Paul's concern for the Thessalonians  Greek word: perichoresis
• 1 Thessalonians 4:1-12: Living a holy life Greek word: porneia
• 1 Thessalonians 4:13-5:11: The coming of the Lord. Greek word: parousia
• 2 Timothy 1: Paul's farewell letter  Greek word: syneidesis
• 2 Timothy 2: Work hard for the Lord Greek word: orthotomeo
• 2 Timothy 3: Staying on track when others are not. Greek word: theopneustos
• 2 Timothy 4: "The time has come for my departure" Greek word: kairos
• Titus 1: Leaders in truth
• Titus 2: Making grace look good
• Titus 3: Saved by God's mercy
• Hebrews 11a: Faithful heroes
• Hebrews 11b: Abraham's example of faith
• Hebrews 11c: Faith in victory and in death
• Hebrews 12a: Dealing with difficulties
• Hebrews 12b: A mountain of joy
• Hebrews 13: Final exhortations
• 1 Peter 1: Real wealth lasts forever
• 1 Peter 2: Special roles for special people
• 1 Peter 3: Setting a good example
• 2 Peter 1: Plan for spiritual success
• Revelation: It's no mystery

• Joe Aldrich, Lifestyle Evangelism
• Buzz Aldrin, Magnificent Desolation
• Athanasius, On the Incarnation
• Karl Barth, Dogmatics in Outline
• Greg Boyd, Repenting of Religion
• P.R. Eddy and G. Boyd: The Jesus Legend
• Michael Emerson and Christian Smith, Divided by Faith
• Gabriel Fakre, Ronald Nash, and John Sanders, What About Those Who Have Never Heard?
• Gordon Fee and Douglas Stuart, How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth
• Bob George, Classic Christianity
• Justo Gonzalez, The Story of Christianity
• Michael Green, Evangelism Through the Local Church
• Stanley Grenz and others, Pocket Dictionary of Theological Terms
• Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
• Chris Hedges, I Don't Believe in Atheists
• A.J. Jacobs, The Year of Living Biblically
• C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce (heaven and hell)
• C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
• C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
• Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel
• Bruce Marchiano, Jesus, the Man Who Loved Women
• Gordon MacDonald, Who Stole My Church?
• Alister McGrath, Dawkins' God
• Brian McLaren, Everything Must Change: Global Crises and a Revolution of Hope
• Brian McLaren, A Generous Orthodoxy
• Steve McVey: Grace Walk: What You've Always Wanted in the Christian Life
• Hemant Mehta, I Sold My Soul on eBay
• Henri Nouwen, The Return of the Prodigal Son
• Roger Olson & Adam English, Pocket History of Theology
• Eugene Peterson, Traveling Light
• Stephen Sizer, Christian Zionism: Road Map to Armageddon?
• Lewis Smedes, Forgive and Forget
• Rodney Stark, Cities of God
• Lee Strobel, The Case for Christ
• Charles Swindoll, The Grace Awakening
• Theistic Evolution - five books
• T.F. Torrance, The Mediation of Christ
• Michael Yaconelli, Messy Spirituality
• William P. Young, The Shack
• R.S. & B. Zander, The Art of Possibility

Children

• Blessed are the includers
• Building believing children
• Can you do that in school? (prayer in U.S. public schools)
• Celebrating "Holland"
• Equipping children for ministry
• Go ahead—spend, spend, spend
• How are you today?
• If you knew Susie...
• Increased emphasis on ministry to children
• Introduction to children's ministry - a manual
• Jesus loves them, this I know
• Majors & minors
• Mom, I'm not sure there is a God!
• My mother's prayer
• Our children's heroes
• Parenting "do over" for grandparents
• Principles of effective children’s ministry These six articles in Word or PDF.
  • Bless children with Jesus' love
  • Relate to children at their level
  • Involve children in your life
  • Nurture children in the way of Jesus
  • Give ministry opportunities to children
• Remember to breathe
• "Send us some children": A story of transformation
• Text speak
• A timely gift
• Two peas, same pod?
• Using Christmas to teach children about Jesus
• Washing your children in the Word
• A week to change your life
• Winning lost children

Christian holidays

• Christmas light
• Christmas past and present in the church
• Christmas: what Jesus' incarnation shows us about being human
  companion articles: A Fresh Look at "Nothing," and Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
• Does God Hate Christmas?
• Easter in the church
• The first church Christmas
• Goodwill to all men?
• The irony of it all
• Pentecost: birth of the church
• The real Christmas miracle story
• The shepherd's story
• The tree
• Using Christmas to teach children about Jesus
• What does Jesus want for Christmas?

Christian living

• As ugly as sin
• The beauty within
• Being human
• The boys
• Buddy—the Mighty Lizard Hunter
• Changing faces
• Confessions of a part-time waitress
• Dead to sin—oh really?
• Doing what comes "naturally"
• Don't just go — leave a legacy
• Dr. Proverb
• Dumpy, dumpy moments
• Dze kotoku medea Kratsi o. If you are going to Kratchi, you should make the trip worthwhile
• Ever see roasted corn grow?
• Free to be
• From both sides now
• The Gentle Giant, interview with Richard Kiel
• Get salty
• Give me a break!
• He's only human
• A high school reunion story
• How selfish is your Christianity?
• How to fix people
• How ugly are the feet?
• If you hide the sickness, you hide the treatment
• Impress yourself
• Just a nobody?
• Kitchen-bin guidance
• Like a weaned child
• A miracle in torn blue jeans
• New glory: how becoming a citizen helped me understand the Christian faith better
• Now wash your hands
• "People, I just want to say, you know, can't we all get along?"
• The problem of forgiveness
• Rain to rainbows
• “The rain won't stop until it washes you clean”
• Regrets? I've Had Quite a Few
• The day I fired myself
• The scarred frog blanket
• Sharing in Jesus' life
• Small things
• Sorting the seed
• There is a hole in my campus
• A time for love
• Too old to be useful?
• The untold "unstory" of Trophimus
• Urge protection
• Using knowledge wisely
• When Life Sucks
• Underlining life
• When trees grow together
• Winning from the start: the Special Olympics

Church

• Church: Some Assembly Required
• The church's leaky basement
• From the cornfields to the city: how a small church reinvented itself
• Getting it back to front
• Hand in hand
• Hope for the left-behind church: an interview with Ruth Tucker
• Managing the postmodern church
• Moving mountains in Appalachia
• Sticking together
• Theater of the imagination: reader's theater
• Turn-key or makeover?
• Whatever happened to church growth?
• Why don't more people go to church?

Church history

• The African-American church in America
• The Apostles Creed
• Athanasius lists the New Testament writings
• Augustine: "Father" of the Western Church
• Billy Graham: evangelist to the world
• Black history month: an interview with Curtis May, with section about M.L. King, Jr.
• Christmas past and present in the church
• The Council of Chalcedon and the "Two Natures" Controversy
• Depth perception
• Easter in the church
• Fasting and repentance after the Salem witch trials
• The first church Christmas
• The Great Awakening—a "work of God"
• The great disappointment: When Jesus did not return in 1844
• The 'great schism' of the church: Western and Eastern churches separate
• How Russian became Christian
• Irenaeus and the second-century church
• Jesus Christ 'of one substance with the Father" - the formula of Nicea
• Karl Barth: "prophet" to the church
• The Nicene Creed
• Persecution, penance, and "the lapsed"
• The Protestant Church in Hitler's Germany and the Barmen Declaration
• One 'mere Christian' in church history: C.S. Lewis
• Pentecost: birth of the church
• Vatican II and the future of church unity
• William Seymour and the rise of Pentecostalism
• William Tyndale and the birth of the English Bible
• William Wilberforce: Christian abolitionist, reformer, statesman
• When astronomy became a theological football: Galileo

Discipleship

• Guarding Hitler's deputy
• It was OK for Timothy
• A matter of perspective
• Peace in Christ, by John McLean
• Right idea... wrong foundation
• Tired of life, with everything to live for
• WWJD?
• The yoke was on me!

Evangelism

• Confessions of a youth evangelist
• Ev-Angela's sermon
• If necessary, use words
• Son-block
• Sharing a secret
• The Jonah syndrome

Faith

• Fluffing the faith
• Forgiveness and faith
• Helping our unbelief
• Still small voices
• Stirred—but not shaken
• Where are you, Lord?
• You'd have to have been there

Families

• Advice to husbands from a nomadic tribe
• Do you have time for a happier family?
• Facing up to autism
• The gift
• Lozi proverb
• Mako ndi mako. Your mother is still your mother.
• My father's living will
• My struggle with pornography
• Oh no... I'm a mother-in-law
• She made home happy
• Unmasking male depression

God

• The bond of love
• Don't just accept the Trinity
• God told me...
• God's masterpiece
• I think God hates me!
• Let God be God
• A message the world forgot
• Perichor...what? A discussion with C. Baxter Kruger
• Theology: what difference does it make?
• The Trinity: just a doctrine?
• The way of Trinitarian love
• Who's afraid of the schizophrenic God?

Gospel

• The boy in the airport
• The chink in death's armor
• Come just as you are?
• A covenant of forgiveness
• Does it all depend?
• An E-ticket ride
• The Forgettery
• Getting real
• God's video
• Going on a guilt trip?
• A good way to go
• The gospel according to Sam
• The gospel and Superman
• Grace: a license to sin?
• "He oughta' be shot!"
• "If you really had repented..."
• Interview with Robert Farrar Capon
• Losing our evangelistic buts
• Lost in New Orleans
• Meeting Jesus on the road to Ethiopia
• Mirror, mirror
• The most important election ever
• A new look at The Good Samaritan
• PD & Me
• The radical consequences of justification, by T.F. Torrance
• Silk purses from sows' ears "the worst movie ever made"
• Talking with Paul Young
• Tell Peter
• The thief's story
• Was Jesus plan "B"?
• We were always on his mind
• What time is it?

Jesus

• 21st-century bystander
• The beautiful anointing
• The bride's story
• The crown of thorns
• Elizabeth
• The great fever
• He's alive!
• I am Pilate's wife
• I preached the Sermon on the Mount
• In remembrance of what?
• Is Jesus enough?
• Is Jesus really God? A look at the Arian Controversy
• It isn't just about how he died
• Joanna
• Let the little children come
• Lunch basket extraordinaire
• Martha
• Mary Magdalene
• The perfect communicator
• The Prince who smells good
• Playing Jesus—a discussion with Bruce Marchiano
• Resurrection and ascension: what it means to be 'in Christ'
• Salome
• Slugging it out
• Sold for 30 Pieces of Silver
• The sword
• The synagogue ruler's wife
• The unclean woman
• Widow of Nain
• The woman accused of adultery
• Would You Have Chosen Barabbas?

Mental health

• Anger: A Battle We Can Win
• Good things
• It can't be depression... I'm a Christian
• Lovers of pleasure... Are we trying too hard to be happy?
• Mid-life melancholy
• Running away from intimacy

Ministry

• An elephant's tail
• Generosity as a way of life
• Little steps in the right direction
• Women in the ministry of Jesus

Missions

• Camp with a mission
• Cleaning up Katrina: after the cameras move on
• Good news to the poor - an interview with the president of World Vision
• Little stars: a story of love, faith and vision from Thailand
• Hope floats
• Is a short-term mission trip worth it?
• Mission bound
• Modern slavery: the unheard cries
• The Nightingales of Bangladesh
• So how did it go? A report from the Philippines
• Vacation or Mission?
• Watching God work in the Philippines
• Worth a million words

Money

• Acting wisely during a recession
• Developing a spending plan with a "virtual cookie jar"
• Give now?
• I thought I would lose my job!
• It could happen to you!
• The second best Christmas gift

Music

• Discovering Handel's Messiah

Prophecy

• Between death and resurrection
• Bible prophecy: what's it all about?
• Heaven's above - or is it?
• Hope and a future
• Immortality: The "mother of all changes"
• Praying for the peace of Jerusalem
• Sinners in the arms of a loving God
• We Say Goodbye... but then what happens when we die?
• Where are we now in prophecy?

Reconciliation

• The audacity to hope
• Making history in Montana
• Meeting a living legend: Fred Shuttlesworth
• A place where everybody belongs
• A sorry state of affairs: understanding the power of an apology
• Will it play in Peoria?

Science

• Creation and evolution? How did God bring about the rich variety of species on earth?
• Duty of Care? Christian responsibility to the environment
• The faith of an atheist — a discussion with Alister McGrath
• In search of the God of the gasps
• Intelligent Design: What it is ... what it isn't
• Should "Intelligent Design" be taught in the science classroom? 
• Theistic Evolution - five books

Serving others

• Cleaning up Katrina
• A cup of cold water
• The Greeks had a word for it: antilepsis
• The lady with the lamp
• Loving them to the end
• Making friends with the disabled

Spiritual growth

• Elijah
• A fool for Christ
• A lesson in humility
• Keep on walking
• Loving in deed
• Moving mountains and cursing fig trees
• The prayer God always answers
• Praying for my enemies
• Praying with great interest
• Put on the armor of God
• Saying grace graciously
• "When I am bigger..."
• Who's afraid of the big, bad... lion?

Suffering

• An answer in the dark
• Disaster in New Orleans
• God vs. tsunami
• Hindsight: faith reframing tragedy
• Her beauty and her terror
• Mbio za sakafuni huishia ukingoni!
• "Not long now..."
• Safe in God's hands
• Small miracles
• Tsunami report: an insider's view

Writing

• How to be effective and memorable
• Jump start: this space is reserved
• Let's hope she floats
• Living Today
• What, why, when, how, where, who
• Where next?
• Who's who? on the Odyssey staff

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