It hasn’t escaped my notice that so far in Holy Week we’re reading about David killing an enemy giant and Saul getting jealous of David’s successes (we kind of skipped that part, but that’s why Saul is upset now) and then trying to kill David. Maybe you’ve noticed it too. And death is going to [...]
Posts Tagged ‘death’
Reading in the shadow of the cross, all week long
Posted: April 4, 2012 in Orange, YellowTags: covenant, David, death, Jesus, king, Saul
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The problem of killing – ORANGE
Posted: March 14, 2012 in OrangeTags: community, consequences, death, Joshua, law, questions, refuge
What do you do with someone who has killed another person? In every society ever, this is one of the biggest and most pressing questions. If everyone just gets to walk around killing whomever they want, you don’t really have much of a society, and you definitely don’t have much in the way of public [...]
Things end. That’s just the way life works. There are a few things, actually, that do last forever: God’s love, and, um, God’s love, and, well, God and eternity, I suppose… But it’s a pretty short list. For the most part, things end. Moses got more time on earth and accomplished more in that time [...]
Gold dust and swords
Posted: February 26, 2012 in Orange, YellowTags: Aaron, death, golden calf, Moses, punishment, Sinai
In my children’s Bible, when Moses comes down the mountain, he gets angry, grinds up the golden calf and makes the people drink the gold dust. They are punished by losing all their gold stuff and having to drink dust. Then Moses goes up the mountain to ask God to forgive them. So I am [...]
Great visual!
Posted: February 18, 2012 in Orange, YellowTags: Aaron, art, death, interpretation, Moses, passover, plagues
I often google our readings for interesting thoughts, questions, videos, art, poems, etc. to share here. So I googled “first passover” – and one of the hits caught my attention. Here’s what showed on the search page blurb: The First Passover – The Tenth Plague on Egypt The first Passover and the tenth plague on [...]
Looking back
Posted: February 17, 2012 in Orange, YellowTags: death, interpretation, Moses, Pharaoh, plagues
This is it. The death of the firstborn son will be the last, and most traumatic, of all the plagues. Tomorrow we’ll read about what the Israelites were doing while the Egyptians were mourning, but for now, we’re basically sitting in the middle of a war zone. Which makes it a great time to look [...]
There’s an old saying that death always comes in threes. It’s just a superstition, but it does reflect the fact that sometimes in our lives there are times when it seems like everything is coming at us at once. This seems to be one of those moments for Jacob. Just as he’s finally finished his [...]
