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Reading the Old Testament — Getting the Stars Out of Our Eyes
I grew up in church. I grew up in Sunday School and children’s church. In our small church we didn’t have children’s pastors. The parents would rotate Sundays as volunteers. My parents were my children’s pastors once month. We had this game my dad would have us play where someone would get up in front, he would pin a name…
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Ruth — Beauty Among the Ashes
The Book of Ruth should be read when you read the Book of Judges. The biggest advantage is realizing that among the blood lust of Judges there is a beautiful story of redemption. Reading Judges will be a tough read. Realize it’s not about the book telling us what is “right.” It is giving us a story of what is…
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Too Busy for God
We are reading through the Book of Joshua this week as we being our summer journey through the Old Testament historical books in our church. Joshua 9 is the story of the Gibeonite deception. A group of Gibeonites came and negotiated peace with Israel because they knew Israel would run them over. Their only hope of survival was to fake…
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Book of Joshua — Be Strong and Courageous
7 “Be strong and very courageous. Be careful to obey all the law my servant Moses gave you; do not turn from it to the right or to the left, that you may be successful wherever you go. 8 Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips;meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will…
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Why the Old Testament?
In preparation for my Old Testament survey course I teach in the spring, I want to express my thanks for those who have given me wonderful ideas for OT passages to memorize. Now, the question I propose is this: WHY do we pay attention to the Old Testament? As a believer, not one who is taking a required course, WHY…
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A Question for Old Testament Studies
Next semester I am teaching a freshman college course on Old Testament. It’s a survey class. One of the exercises I am toying with is having passages of Scripture to memorize. If you had about six passages to assign, what Old Testament passages would you assign… and why? Let me hear from you! Especially T.C., Brian, Jeff, Bitsy, and Gary.
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