Putting out a Fleece, Casting Lots, and Choosing that Hill to Die on
analyzing a God-honoring way to make decisions, the casting of lots and putting out a fleece
analyzing a God-honoring way to make decisions, the casting of lots and putting out a fleece
how cultural differences affect names in the Bible, how God’s name is treated by Jewish traditionalism, people who repent and people who don’t repent
why fringes mattered in bible times, why it matters to us, why symbolism mattered to them and us
why Jesus said we need to eat his flesh and drink his blood is explained and connected with significance for our rituals and lives today
what adds significance to our rituals is considering our roots more thoughtfully and faith in the God that saves us
understanding the significance of the cup in Bible times makes a better connection with its rhetoric and the communion cup
we need to cultivate our hatred of sin to serve God from gratitude, and not guilt, so learning about dung in the Bible, and Luke 18:9-14, helps
If we can capture God’s enormity and ourselves in contrast we can be rid of guilt and serve from gratitude
Leviticus shows high standards symbolically since we don’t have to obey much of the rules, but we have such a problem with our hearts
Leviticus has many rules and weird rules to make us realize how much we need God to change our hearts to want to obey what he requires of us today
Praise the Lord! My students finished helping me with the latest technology and now I’ll be busy all summer with improving my presentations and organizing my material to significantly improve your experience here. If you want to keep tabs on the latest edits, check out the bottom of my blog index.
My story of forgiveness and healing is quite unrelated to envisioning the Bible world. But since our world is sin and pain infested, I suspect many will want to hear more about my personal experience. I anticipate writing a couple of blogs about this, but mostly I’ll focus on envisioning the Bible world.
The following documentary links are gradually going to disappear from here this summer, appearing instead under the menu option “Tour Israel.” There, I’ll cover more introduction and pictures to the areas these links cover.
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