Tag: theology
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Day 128: Friendship, Secrets, and an Appreciation for Tara-Leigh Cobble (Psalm 25:14)
Psalm 25:14, has been translated in two different ways, and my first is to figure out which one is “right.” But what if I’m asking the wrong question. I’m I willing to listen to a perspective that comes from a different place?
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Day 123: My Favorite Hebrew Word (Psalm 107:43)
The Bible has a word for a love that doesn’t quit because it’s been promised—a covenant love God swore by Himself, and will never break.
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Day 120: What God Does is Who God Is (Psalm 103)
In Psalm 103, God doesn’t just perform acts of forgiveness, healing, and redemption—He is those things. He is the Forgiving, the Healing, the Redeeming. His grace doesn’t flow from what we do, but from who He is.
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Day 079: Does God Really Delight in the Destruction of His People? (Deuteronomy 28:45-47)
When Scripture stretches our theology, it may also be revealing something deeper about both God’s justice and our own stubborn hearts.
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Day 013: Really, Elihu? (Job 36:1-4)
Job’s friends—and Elihu most of all—say many true things about God. The problem isn’t that they speak falsehoods; it’s that they speak true things in false ways. They turn wisdom into weapons, doctrine into diagnosis, and God’s justice into a cudgel for the suffering. In doing so, they don’t just misread Job—they misrepresent God.
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Grace: A Poem
Sometimes we think of grace in terms of beauty. Other times it’s in terms of forgiveness. Which is it? Yes.
