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Royal Drama and Political Intrigue in the Bible
After doing my Bible reading for the past few days, I started wondering why we don't have more quality dramatizations of Bible stories. The drama surrounding King Saul, Jonathan, and David could make a whole series. So in 1 Samuel 15, King Saul is getting a little too...
God Working with Family Dysfunction
The Bible is full of examples of God working His will and story even through and despite severe human problems, failures, and downright purposeful immorality. For this post I'd like to talk about family dysfunction. Sometimes things turn out well and sometimes they...
Sensitivity and Calibration of the Conscience
We all have consciences. We don't always use them the way we should. Ignoring your conscience dulls and damages it, making it less effective and less sensitive in the future. When you constantly brush through the thorns your conscience said not to, your conscience can...
Emotional Baggage
Sometimes you can think of your mental and emotional health as a bag. You carry it with you wherever you go, and it has different things in it depending on where you've been, where you're at, and where you're going. Sometimes the bag is light and easy. Sometimes the...
Achsah and Othniel
In Joshua 15:15-19 and Judges 1:11-15, we are introduced to a woman named Achsah and a man named Othniel. Achsah was the daughter of Caleb, the man who had followed God when his peers hadn't, causing him to outlive his peers and maintain enough strength to still be...
Aging Very Gracefully
I've been thinking about a couple people in the Bible who aged much more than just gracefully, and I wonder what that must have been like to witness. Moses lived to be 120 years old. When he died, the Bible says he was still in good condition. His eyesight was still...