In last Friday’s reflection on Exodus 12, I noted how striking it is that God wove together both the experience of the Passover and the formation of traditions to foster remembrance of what...
Sam here. Welcome to HCB’s discussion of The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World (Vintage) by Lewis Hyde. I just finished the last page of Chapter 1 yesterday and usually...
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Daniel J. Lohrmann, author of Virtual Integrity (Brazos Press, 2008) is an award-winning computer expert. As Michigan's...
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One of the striking features of Exodus 12 is the interweaving of the actual events of the first Passover with the establishment of the annual feast of Passover. The Lord not only delivered the...
L.L. here for Random Acts of Poetry. Lifting poems from the comment box (a pastime I’ve been known to indulge before). This seemed like the perfect thing to do, since next week’s prompt...
When it comes to figuring out God’s purposes, I frequently remember what he said through the prophet Isaiah: “My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts. . . . And my ways are far beyond anything...
See, I have called by name Bezalel . . .and I have appointed with him Oholiab . . . Exodus 31:2, 6Bezalel and Oholiab? Who are they? Well, they are characters in the Bible. But most of us have...
I have a love-hate relationship with emails. I love the ease and speed of email communication, but I hate it when I make mistakes. You know the feeling. If you don't, if you're...
In the first half of Exodus 8, Egypt suffered the plague of frogs, until Moses prayed and the frogs died. Once again, Pharaoh broke his word and failed to let the Israelites go...
Most of Psalm 41 is David’s lament to the Lord and plea for mercy. He has been physically sick and his enemies...
I just have to begin today’s reflection with a personal story. My family and I are enjoying the adventure of living in the Hill Country of Texas. Our home is on the edge...
[Jesus said] Those who drink of the water that I will give them will never be thirsty. The water that I will give will become in them a spring of water gushing up...
Matt Milam II posted this fantastic video over at his highcallingblogs site. (Matt is also on blogger.) Matt and his folks are spending the summer having church in the Blue Sky Cathedral. I...
The book of Nehemiah opens with a "state of the union"-like assessment of Israel following Babylonian captivity. The bedraggled remnant is in a state of "great affliction and reproach" and "the...
When Moses and Aaron once again approached Pharaoh in order to seek release for the Israelites, Pharaoh asked for a miraculous sign. So Aaron threw his staff down on the ground and it...
I had a pile of birthday cards, thank you notes, and some important business mail bundled up for the post office one...
You've completed the applications, uploaded the resumes, phoned everyone you know, and are now calling down a list of new people you...
In Exodus 7, we learn the ages of Moses and Aaron when God used them to set his people free from slavery in Egypt. “Moses was eighty years old,” it says, “and Aaron...
