Take a moment to savour theStory today. It’s all about innocence. Yesterday’s reading describes the creation of all that exists, today we see God bringing all that now exists into context. Streams emerge from the earth to water the ground. From the ground a man is formed and in an act of intimacy God breathes the breath of life into his nostrils and he becomes a living being.
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Read Reflect Welcome to one of the darkest periods of not only Judah’s, but all of history. The irony is that Judah’s most evil king ruled the longest – from age 12 for 55 years! Even King David, the “measuring standard” of good kingship, ruled only 40 years. Every conceivable evil, from idolatry (vv 3-5) […]
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When my father died several years ago, it was quite unexpected: he was vacationing with my mother in Jamaica. As it turned out, he died of what was a very treatable condition; but because he received the poorest of treatment in a very low-level hospital he had no chance.
Read More good, Jews, gentiles, rejectionSurely there is wisdom in looking at the bright side of things, of accentuating the positive in our lives and speaking well of the situations in which we find ourselves. The apostle Paul suggests this in various ones of his letters and even in the earlier parts of this second letter to Timothy. (See 2:1-2)
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