Round and round and round we go

Where does it stop? Nobody knows. Moses’ generation promised to serve the LORD, and the LORD only, and to teach their children to do so. They messed up a lot, but they came back pretty quickly, and they taught their children to repent also. Joshua’s generation promised to serve the LORD, and the LORD only. [...]

Remember this!

We’ve been flying through Leviticus, Numbers, and now Deuteronomy pretty quickly, so let’s take a minute to catch up on some things than have happened in between: Miriam and Aaron both died shortly before Balaam’s donkey took up talking to him.  Miriam died in the desert, Aaron on a mountaintop. Aaron had been serving as [...]

What have you done for me lately?

In politics, if you want someone’s vote or support or money, you often have to make them promises. It doesn’t matter what you’ve already done for them – they want to know what you’re about to do for them. And certainly if you haven done anything for them for a little while, it doesn’t matter [...]

Jacob’s sports injury

If you’ve ever had a significant injury or even just overused a body part, you know that it is never quite exactly the same afterward.  Maybe there is a scar than you can see, on the skin. Maybe there is scar tissue inside that doesn’t work the same way. Maybe that joint or muscle just [...]

The string around God’s finger

I have a rainbow painted in my office, as part of the awesome mural that Lucy made.  I like it because it’s pretty, because it reminds me of a delicious roll of  LifeSavers, and because it reminds me of God’s covenant with us. So I sometimes forget that God didn’t put the rainbow in the [...]