November 17, 2024
My last reflection focused on how God named the complementary strengths of Moses and his brother Aaron, showing Moses how they could work together to bring the Israelites out of Egypt. Now we see the...
November 10, 2024
My last reflection focused on Moses’ unwillingness to accept God’s call. One of Moses’ many excuses was that he wasn’t “eloquent,” he was “slow of speech and tongue.” God was angered by Moses’...
November 4, 2024
My last reflection focused on the way God spoke to Moses through a burning bush, and Moses’ first reluctant response to God’s call. Well, Moses’ second, third, fourth, and fifth answers to God were...
October 28, 2024
Last week I reflected on the idea that Moses was wired to care for his people, who were suffering in slavery under Pharaoh. Moses flees after killing an Egyptian, and after some time, God appears to...
October 20, 2024
As I mentioned last week, my reflections on Moses will focus on certain situations, instead of walking through the entirety of his life. But to get us started, recall that Moses, after he was born,...
October 13, 2024
For the remaining weeks of the year, I invite you to study aspects of the life of Moses with me. He is perhaps the most famous Old Testament character, combining the roles of prophet, lawgiver, and...
October 6, 2024
In my study of the biblical book of Judges, and in particular Gideon, Jephthah, and Samson, I was interested in the idea of repeating cycles. The book of Judges is chock full of examples of Israel’s...
September 29, 2024
In my last reflection, Samson wrestles with the difficult choice of whether to admit to Delilah the secret of his strength. He chooses to do so, and she in turn tells the Philistines, who torture and...
September 22, 2024
My last reflection used Samson’s weakness — his lust — to ponder our own vulnerabilities in the life of the family business. Delilah keeps pressing Samson to divulge the secret of his strength, and...
September 16, 2024
When I decided to write about three Judges — Gideon, Jephthah, and now Samson — my knowledge of Samson was informed primarily by my Sunday school recollections, storybook pictures of Samson’s long...