GOD and GENOCIDE in the BIBLE: What Do We Do with the “Texts of Terror”?
What do we do with the passages about genocide in the Bible? There are quite a few of them. We can’t just ignore them. They are difficult passages to say the least with God directly killing people, or ordering His…
What Distinguishes the People of God?
Exodus 33 is one of my favorite chapters in the Bible. At the bottom of the page in the Bible I read for my daily devotions I noted, “It is the Presence of God—the ‘with-ness’ of God—that distinguishes the people…
A Night Like This
For all appearances it was an ordinary night. Most of the world, wrapped in customary darkness, was asleep. The shepherds were in the field with their sheep, as usual. Even the uncharacteristic bustle around Bethlehem because of the edict from…
Songs of the Bible #1: Moses’ Victory Ballad
Our Bible is a wonderful worship manual. In its words, we find out who this awesome God is through what He reveals about His character, nature, power, goodness and love. These insights draw us to awed worship. In these pages,…
Lord, You’re Holy
Holiness is a difficult concept for us to grasp. While we can think of it in terms of purity, it goes well beyond that. One definition often used by theologians is “otherness”—a state of being set apart and totally other…
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