Taking a closer look at great people and themes of Scripture
Nineveh is in the news again, but under a different name. Its ancient ruins are just across the river from the modern city of Mosul in northern Iraq. This timeless story still speaks. God said, Go tell Nineveh they’re in trouble with Me. Jonah ran away to sea. God took up the chase. He hurled […]
I was reading this morning the account of the Israelites finding themselves thirsty and miserable in the desert of Zin (hmm… could have been the Wilderness of Sin?)…wishing they were dead, blaming Moses for their plight, looking back to Egypt as if it had been Eden. “Why have you made us come up out of […]
It’s kind of gross, really–we’re not on the farm, but in the beautifully outfitted tabernacle, with the priests in their robes woven of scarlet and blue and purple linen ornamented with precious gems and twisted cords of gold… It’s a beautiful setting. The furnishings are overlaid with pure gold. The altar with bronze. Skillfully embroidered […]
The enemy was coming. They could see his chariots glinting in the sun. The thunder of horses’ hooves made the ground shake beneath their feet. Terror rose in their throats. We’re gonna‘ die; it would have been better to stay in Egypt, slaving, but alive. This is actually what the people said. Poor Moses. […]
Have you felt it—that sickening discomposure that leaves you weak and confounded and thinking, “What am I gonna do?!” but too overwhelmed to imagine there is anything that can be done…? Literally ‘dismay’ means to be shattered, to be broken down with fear, ‘shorn of strength’—’like plants of the field and like tender grass, like […]