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Christine Colbert

Christine Colbert (MS in Journalism, University of Kansas) has written and edited community and regional news and served as a publicist, editorial consultant and essayist. She is the author of the children's book But Who Did Jesus Say That He Is?

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Awaiting authorOctober 7, 2016

On Walls and Oneness: Reflections on the Book of Ephesians

We recognize that he specifically directed this letter to the Ephesians in the first Jewish-Christian community at Ephesus. But the Holy Spirit also speaks to each of us throughout the sacred text, because He is its ultimate Author. He then helps us to understand the text and apply its lessons and teachings to our lives. Paul begins with what is essential. He tells us that God “chose us in Him

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Awaiting authorSeptember 3, 2015

Christianity vs. Judaism: A False Dichotomy

I heard a Jewish woman who had come to recognize Jesus / Yeshua as the Jewish Messiah in her thirties and who is a co-founder of a Messianic Jewish congregation conclude her personal story of coming to understand and love Him by saying “I’m a Jew and I’ll always be a Jew.” Of course she was reflecting the cultural tradition, “I was born a Jew and I’ll die a Jew.”

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