Tag: biblical theology
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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 007: What Job Knew (and Didn’t Know) About the Afterlife (Job 14:13-14)
Job lived long before resurrection had a name, yet he could not accept that death was the end of the story. In Job 14, he asks a question that Scripture will spend centuries answering: If a man dies, shall he live again?
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Day 003: Sin Exposed, Shame Covered (Genesis 9:20-25)
Sin exposes us. Shame follows close behind. But from Eden to Noah, and from Noah to the cross, Scripture tells a better story—one where God does not deny sin, but refuses to let shame have the final word.
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Day 002: Two Songs, Two Math Problems (Genesis 4:23-24)
In Genesis, Lamech sings vengeance by the numbers. In the Gospels, Jesus answers with forgiveness that outnumbers it. What changed wasn’t the math—it was the song.
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Day 051: A Festival for The Rest of Us (Leviticus 22-23)
The Feast of Booths was Israel’s reminder that they once lived as strangers—and God’s invitation for the nations to come and celebrate. Seventy bulls. Seventy nations. Wide booths with room for friends, family, and even outsiders. Sukkot teaches us to live lightly in this world and to make room for others in the one to…
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Day 039: How Exodus 29 Foreshadows Communion
The priests were not just preparing a sacrifice; they were preparing a meal. They were commanded to eat the very flesh through which atonement had been made for them—a stunning foreshadowing of the Lord’s Supper.
