Category: Reading through the Bible
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Day 036: Exodus 21 and the Value of Life Before Birth
Does Exodus 21 treat the unborn child as something less than a full life? A careful reading of this ancient case law—read as law, not as a slogan—shows how Scripture weighs harm, responsibility, and justice when violence endangers life before birth.
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Day 030: “God Saw, and God Knew” (Exodus 2:25)
Exodus 2:25 offers a quiet turning point in Israel’s story. After generations of suffering and silence, Scripture says simply: “God saw, and God knew.” This is not distant awareness, but intimate, covenantal knowledge—the assurance that God is present even when deliverance has not yet come.
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Day 021: Divine Providence and Family Dysfunction (Genesis 27:5-10)
Genesis 27–29 reads like a case study in family dysfunction—favoritism, deceit, betrayal, and rivalry. Yet through this broken family, God still keeps His promises.
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Day 016: Abram the Crosser-Over
The first time Abram is called “the Hebrew,” the Bible isn’t naming his ethnicity so much as his story. He is the crosser-over—the man who passed out of death and into promise. And in Genesis 15, we discover that the God who calls us to cross is also the God who crosses for us.
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Day 015: Great Physician or Bad Doctor? (Job 42:3)
When pain comes—unexpected, sharp, and unwelcome—it’s easy to question God’s goodness. Like a child accusing a doctor after a painful shot, we sometimes mistake suffering for betrayal. At the end of Job, God doesn’t explain the pain away; he reorients us to trust the One who holds the needle—and bears the scars.
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Day 014: Why Does Job Mention Greek Constellations? (Job 38:31-32)
When God speaks to Job out of the whirlwind, He suddenly points to the stars—naming the Pleiades, Orion, and the Mazzaroth. Those familiar names open a window into how God’s unchanging Word is faithfully translated so each generation can understand it.