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3 mins read|09/25/20This is an excerpt from “Unveiling Mercy: 365 Daily Devotions Based on Insights from Old Testament Hebrew” written by Chad Bird (1517 Publishing, 2020). Used with permission.
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11 mins read|07/21/20The well-known Sunday School story of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego is far from a simple account of three brave and faithful Israelites. It’s a mini-story with a mega-story tucked inside it—a story that links it (backward) to Exodus and (forward) to the Gospels.
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15 mins read|05/19/20In their last Q&A with Jesus, the disciples ask, "Lord, will you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?" I used to think that was a dumb question by confused disciples. I was wrong. In his response, Jesus teaches them--and us--what the restoration of Israel's kingdom really looks like.
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1 min|05/09/20Sin is everywhere. Betrayal is everywhere. But the Christ whom Samson foreshadows has the final word.
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11 mins read|04/08/20One key to unlocking the significance of Golgotha is found all the way back in Joshua--in a "round" Hebrew word, a bizarre story about reproach, and five kings hiding in a cave.
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12 mins read|02/25/20This misunderstood story is not a moralistic tale about bald prophets and child-eating bears, designed to teach youths to honor their elders and preachers. Rather, it's a brief glimpse into the age-old war that began in a garden and ended at an empty tomb.
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13 mins read|02/18/20He is no sweet and sappy, romanticized and Disneyfied, cartoonish Christ. He is ferocious, free, untamed, and heaven-bent on not leaving the battlefield until the war is won and he makes his enemies a footstool for his feet.
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13 mins read|12/17/19Mary’s virginity has to do with the story of a jackass king, two growling enemies, a young lady, and a big, bad Assyrian dog.
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12 mins read|09/09/19Far too many Christians read the Bible as if a dam has been built between the waters of the Old Testament and the New Testament.
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14 mins read|08/24/19Jesus and the New Testament—good. Yahweh and the Old Testament—not really so good. So goes the popular, but largely whispered, dichotomy.
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10 mins read|04/29/19Some of the last words our Lord spoke were addressed to a man who stood on the precipice of eternity.
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83 mins read|01/03/17Old Testament narratives foreshadowed the gifts that our Father gives us in baptism.
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