In this second edition of random textual meanderings, we look at the brief story of Sarai offering up Hagar to Abram. It’s a very odd story that really declares some very harsh, and beautiful, things. Continue reading RANDOM TEXTUAL CONFUSION MEANDERINGS PT 2: Sarai, Hagar, and Ishmael
In this podcast Paul shifts his focus, once more, to address the Judaizers AS WELL AS the Galatian brothers and sisters. No longer is he soft and “motherly” (as he just was) but now he goes back to addressing the lies the Judaizers were pushing… and he does it by breaking down their beliefs once more. Continue reading Galatians 4:21-5:12 Waiting for the Promise
We’ve come to the end of our time in Lamentations – and where do we end? Well…with a REALLY interesting crying out that leaves us hanging. Or does it? Continue reading Lamentations 5:19-22 A Last-Ditch Prayer
In this Podcast we continue working through Paul’s letter to the Galatians as he switches from his “angry voice” to his motherly compassionate voice. Paul has spent time with these people, knows these people, and he desperately wants them to remember the God he knows – and the God he shared. And ultimately he wants THEM to know that THEY are known by God. Continue reading Galatians 4:8-20 Being Known
Lamentations 5:1-18 gives us this staccato bullet-point cry out to God as the people seek Him to “remember” who they are and the promise He made. These are words of people who have lived into the covenant but do they really get what that meant? Continue reading Lamentations 5:1-18 A Prayer of Remembrance
We’ve come to the end of our time in Lamentations! But what do we have to look forward to in this last chapter? What more could be said? Well…lots as this prayer is brutally honest and very dark. Continue reading Lamentations 5: Introduction
In today’s podcast we continue to work through Paul’s letters to the church in Galatia – a church that was struggling with what the grace of God looked like as they were being pulled towards the Law of God. Continue reading Galatians 3:23-4:7 Children of God
We have come to the end of Lamentations 4 – and it’s quite the shift in focus. Whereas before it was very much a “woe is me” now the reality of the darkness that was brought on by themselves sinks in. Continue reading Lamentations 4:11-22 Sitting in the Darkness
We continue in our podcast series of Galatians as we look at the opening 22 verses of chapter 3. It’s a chapter that has us climbing up some mountains as we seek to find the true summit: Jesus Christ. Continue reading Galatians 3:1-22 Jesus: The Answer
In these opening 10 verses of Lamentations 4 we get some of the most beautiful and heart-wrenching spaces in all of scripture. It’s a place, and space, that challenges us to sometimes recognize that unresolved space propels us to the resolution that came, and comes. Continue reading Lamentations 4:1-10 A Moment in an Unresolved Space
