"Lies My Preacher Told Me"

Brent Strawn, an Old Testament prof, examines mistaken beliefs

Brent Strawn, in his new book, Lies My Preacher Told Me: An Honest Look at the Old Testament, responds to each of ten heard-in-the-church lies in accessibly and pastorally-sensitive language, and here is our question: Which of these would you like to have sketched on our Newsletter/Tov Unleashed?

1. The OT is someone else’s mail

2. The OT is a boring history book

3. The OT has been rendered permanently obsolete

4. The OT God is mean … really mean

5. The OT is hyper-violent

6. David the wrote the Psalms (on historical claims)

7. The OT isn’t spiritually enriching

8. The OT isn’t practically relevant

9. The OT law is nothing but a burden, impossible to keep

10. What really matters is that “everything is about Jesus”