Bible Readings for October 5th 1 Kings 8 | Ephesians 5 | Ezekiel 38 | Psalm 89 As Solomon prays to dedicate the temple in today’s reading from 1 Kings 8, his prayers provide important theological distinctions for understanding what it means for Yahweh to dwell in a...
Bible Readings for October 3rd 1 Kings 6 | Ephesians 3 | Ezekiel 36 | Psalm 86 In the beginning, God dwelt with his people in the temple of his creation—that is, in the perfection of the Garden of Eden. There, Yahweh walked among his people, who dwelt with their God...
Bible Readings for June 18th Deuteronomy 23 | Psalms 112–113 | Isaiah 50 | Revelation 20 Several of the prohibitions in Deuteronomy 23 almost make it seem as though Yahweh is squeamish about the human body. For example, we read that anyone with his testicles crushed...
Bible Readings for May 27th Numbers 36 | Psalm 80 | Isaiah 28 | 2 John 1 Numbers 36 continues the story that we read back in Numbers 27, when the daughters of Zelophehad petitioned Moses to receive the inheritance that had belonged to their father, since he had died...
Bible Readings for May 11th Numbers 20 | Psalms 58–59 | Isaiah 9 | James 3 It takes only four verses here in Numbers 20 to disqualify the great Moses from entering into the Promised Land. It wasn’t that there was anything wrong with Moses’s striking the rock with his...