Like most folks in Israel during that terrible drought during Ahab’s reign, the widow faced an unbearably difficult situation: one more bit of flour and oil for her son, then no more food. No rain in the land means no food in the house. Gathering the sticks for the fire kept her body busy, but […]
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Quotes from Christian History
Dallas Willard writes in The Spirit of the Disciplines: ‘Much of the wisdom and analysis in the book of Proverbs is directed toward wrath, a fundamental and very complex form of evil. “A fool’s wrath is quickly known” (12:16), but “He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding” (14:29). Fear and wrath mingle […]
The Tale of Hairy and Grabby, Part 2
When we last met, we learned of Hairy the manly man and Grabby the not-so-manly man. Trouble was beginning to stir as we heard about these brothers, their parents, and this moment that changed their lives. As you may remember from last week, Hairy is a knowledgeable and skillful man’s man of the field, and Grabby is […]
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