... of course, all marriages in the Bible are neat, uncomplicated and perfect... Hold your horses! Here is the book of the Bible where God asks a righteous, God-fearing man to go and marry a prostitute. And then she runs away and he has to go and get her back from whatever she's been doing. [...]
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Daniel
The books are getting shorter again, so I'm blogging more often! Welcome to Daniel, of The Lion's Den fame. Daniel: book of crazy names, crazy courage and crazy faith. I do love the crazy names. Try and get your tongue around this lot! Nebuchadnezzar, Belshazzar, Belteshazzar, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego. I think this is a [...]
Ezekiel
Well there's such a lot going on here, isn't there? Bones, hearts, a new temple, food cooked over burning poo, much prophecy and a whole lot of 'Son of Man.' At one point over the past week, I was expressing what I slog I was finding Ezekiel. Nathan responded by saying how much he loves [...]
Lamentations
After some pretty long reads, it was nice to finish a book in just a couple of days! Welcome to book number 25, Lamentations. It does sound particularly melancholy, but it is no more so than Jeremiah, I wouldn't say! We don't know who wrote Lamentations, but we do know that it is comprised of [...]