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Reflections on youth and age by Jennifer Knapp
I’m not exactly sure how or why but I recently started reconnecting with Jennifer Knapp, a music artist that I enjoyed listening to in my younger days. Maybe its because I found her expressions of faith and longing very relatable or because she has a way of describing the beautiful complexity of life that appeals…
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Job’s Lament
Just a verse that I spent some time pondering today: Those who withhold kindness from a friend forsake the fear of the Almighty. Job 6:14 NRSVUE What’s the relationship between kindness and the fear of the Almighty? The “Almighty” carries with it the meaning of absolute power to destroy. Is this how Job felt about his…
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The Fear of Isaac
In Genesis 31:42, Jacob calls the LORD, “God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac.” Nowhere else in all the scriptures is this name, The Fear of Isaac, used for God (there’s a slight variation of it later on in this same narrative as “The Fear of my father Isaac”).…
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Laughing Trap Wordplay
Came across an interesting translation yesterday in my M’Cheyne which led me down a rabbit hole looking into “wife-sister narratives” in Genesis. Not gonna get into that here; just wanted to look at Genesis 26:8 which renders in the NRSVUE as 8 When Isaac had been there a long time, King Abimelech of the Philistines looked…
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Endurance with love
I was reading through the latter chapters of the Gospel of Matthew today as part of the M’Cheyne plan. Oftentimes I breeze through these sections because the passages are so familiar, but today something caught my interest. In Matthew 24, Jesus is responding to his disciples’ question and concern: “What will the sign be of…