Tag: biblical theology
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Day 078: Why do Jews Face East When They Pray? (Deuteronomy 27:11-13)
East was Egypt. East was slavery. East was the wilderness. East was graves in the desert. And yet God used every step of that journey to make His people holy.
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Day 077: Couldn’t Deuteronomy be More Organized? (Deuteronomy 12:32)
The Torah refuses to be skimmed. It’s not up to me to decide what’s “really” important. Instead of wishing for an index, maybe the right response is worship—thanking God for His law and His grace when we fail.
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Day 055: The Price of Proximity (Number 4:15)
What looks like nepotism at first turns out to be one of the most dangerous roles in the Israelite camp.
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Day 057: Why is Numbers 7 So Long? (Numbers 7:84-88)
Categorizing is quick. Seeing is slow. Numbers 7 reminds me that God sees individuals, not labels—and that nothing offered to Him in faith is ever redundant.
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Day 028: There I Will Make You a Great Nation (Genesis 46:1-3)
Genesis 46 marks a turning point in God’s promise to Abraham’s family. For the first time, God reveals not just what He will do, but where—forming His people into a great nation not in the promised land, but in exile. Long before Israel ever arrives home, God teaches them how to live faithfully in the…
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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.