1 Peter 2:9, “But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for His own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.” The only thing we have—or want—to proclaim to others is the all-satisfying excellency of the […]
Matthew 5:5, “Blessed are the meek, for that shall inherit the earth.” 1 Peter 2:23, “…when He suffered, He did not threaten, but continued entrusting Himself to Him who judges justly…” At the heart of true meekness is trusting submission to the will and purposes of God. It is not fatalism or a religious
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Exodus 15:23,25, “…they could not drink the water of Marah because it was bitter…and YHWH showed [Moses] a tree, and he threw it into the water, and the water became sweet.” Directly following the Lord’s miraculous, self-revelatory redemption of His people from Egypt through the Red Sea, we come to an unexpected narrative vignette
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The first section of Jeremiah is truly staggering to read. YHWH is finished with His people and His patience is at an end…He WILL judge them and they WILL be destroyed in the death of exile. I keep waiting for the “gospel turn” but it doesn’t come…again and again and again the people are–justly–hammered
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