HT: Suzanne
In 1990, Professor Yeshayahu Leibowitz (1903-1994) summarized an interpretation of the meaning of El Shaddai by Rabbi Moses ben Maimon (1135-1204), popularly known as Maimonides:
[Maimonides] explains El Shaddai in terms of “the God for whom it is sufficient (shaddai lo): the God who is sufficient in Himself, whose essence is Himself, not in functions [...]
I’m trying to wrap up my much-prolonged reading of Harold Best’s Unceasing Worship, however I seem to keep getting distracted by other projects and books. That said, a passage in his chapter, “What creative people can learn from God’s creation”, struck me yesterday.
Best is discussing the contrast between our rational need for order, symmetry, harmony [...]
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Yesterday morning was an amazing experience of extremes. I woke up late (which I hate to do) and the boys were extraordinarily rambunctious, which I didn’t deal with very well. My wife left the house early to attend the 9:00 service before serving in the toddlers’ Sunday school room at 10:30. In her absence, the [...]
The following was published today in Mikey’s Funnies, a daily humor subscription email:
CALCULATING GOD’S WILL
By Michael A. Halleen
“So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.” (Matthew 7:12)
John Cardinal Deardon once observed that “The designs of God are not able to [...]
I was struck recently by some thematic similarities between Ezekiel 15 and John 15, but have not yet found the words to adequately draw my thoughts together:
Ezekiel 15:1-8 (TNIV)
The word of the LORD came to me: “Son of man, how is the wood of a vine different from that of a branch from any [...]
Oswald Chambers’ devotional My Utmost for His Highest includes the following quote today:
“The sense of sacrifice appeals readily to a young Christian. Humanly speaking, the one thing that attracts to Jesus Christ is our sense of the heroic, [but] the sense of heroic sacrifice is not good enough.”
There has been a lot written lately in [...]
Joe Myzia has blogged on Hebrews 2:1 in a post called “Don’t Drift Away“, warning us to be vigilant against the gradual process of losing fire for God. I grew up on the waters of the northern Pacific Ocean and maritime imagery in the Bible always has a special resonance with me; in his Daily [...]
I’ve blogged obliquely about free will before as it relates to God’s will - specifically whether God has a will for our individual lives. Joe Myzia recently covered this topic as well. Based on my study of Garry Friesen’s work, I’m of the same opinion as Joe, that God does not have a scripted plan [...]
“That is why I remind you to stir into flame the gift from God which is yours through the laying on of my hands. For the spirit that God gave us is no cowardly spirit, but one to inspire power, love and self-discipline.” (2 Timothy 1:6-7, REB)
The language of the REB continues to grab me. [...]
Every once in a while, I’ll jot down a restating of a verse in the Bible, usually using a phrase I found elsewhere that seems to express an idea particularly well. Earlier tonight I was looking at posts on Jay Davis’ blog and came across his thoughts on Psalm 23; as I was reading this [...]
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