Tag: bible
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Essays on Habakkuk #1
My work neighbor is constantly wanting to start projects with me that engage a part of me that’s not officially part of my work. I enjoy discussing practical theology so I oblige. One of these projects is a series of essays around the minor prophet Habakkuk. The idea is that we’d write our reflections on…
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Moses and the Rock
Ever since I started working at my current job, I have enjoyed a regular series of questions (at least weekly) from my desk neighbor. These questions, whether they are deeply theological or practical, always invite curiosity. Here’s my first attempt in translating one into a post. Maybe I’ll write about them more often in the…
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reading Reading Genesis
In passing office catchup/conversation I learned that some coworkers and members from a local church were going to read Reading Genesis, by Marylinne Robinson. It’s a book I’ve had on the shelf for a while but never got to because there were always other things in my reading queue. But after learning that they were…
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The Holy Household: Ephesians 5
In this series: As I start this third post, I hope to be much more succinct that my first two. Ephesians 5 is often used as the central text regarding the marriage in the complementarian home. In this text, husbands are exhorted to love their wives as Christ loved the church. This means even dying…
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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”).…