Tag: biblical theology
-
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.
-
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.
-
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…
-
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.
-
Day 022: The Speckled Flock Before the Throne (Genesis 31:10-12)
Jacob’s flock was never uniform—striped and spotted, mottled and mismatched. And neither is the flock God is gathering for Himself. From scheming patriarchs to saints and sinners, from every tribe and tongue and nation, God is forming one people by one voice. What we glimpse imperfectly now, we will one day see clearly before the…
-
Day 008: Standing on the Dust (Job 19:25)
Job’s famous confession—“I know that my Redeemer lives”—is often heard as a promise about the end of history. But a closer look at the Hebrew reveals a hope that is nearer than we expect: a Redeemer who does not merely stand upon the earth, but who stands on the dust—present with us in suffering, even…