By BRUCE GREEN RELIGION — The witness section of Deuteronomy 19:15-21 should lead us to think about truth telling as it relates to the community of Christ. After all, the text isn’t addressing honesty in general terms — its specific concern is with truth telling as it...

By BRUCE GREEN RELIGION — Even though disciples are under the new covenant Jesus inaugurated rather than the old covenant God gave Israel through Moses, there’s still a lot we can learn from the Old Testament. Deuteronomy 19:15-21 is part of a section that’s largely...

By BRUCE GREEN RELIGION — In the book of Deuteronomy, Moses is preparing a new generation of Israelites to enter the land of Canaan. The previous generation died in the wilderness due to their unbelief, and Moses wants the generation he’s addressing to do better. I...

RELIGION — "Hear O Israel: The Lord our God, The Lord is one," (Deuteronomy 6:4). It’s hard to overstate the importance of this text for Israel or for the follower of Jesus. For Israel, it was spoken to them as they were f-i-n-a-l-l-y about to enter the land of...