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“But Yahweh has taken you and brought you out o the iron furnace, from Egypt, to be a people for His own inheritance, as today.” – Deuteronomy 4:20 (LSB) What does it mean to created in God’s image? The work of Peter J. Gentry has been immensely helpful in this regard, as well as theContinue reading “Out of the Furnace”

Over the last two months I have been reading through the Bible using the Legacy Standard translation (LSB for short). This new translation builds upon the work of the NASB and aims to be an overly literal Bible translation. The purpose for this literalness is to allow the readers to see intertextual connections that areContinue reading “The Mouth of God”

What does it take to live as a Christian in a culture that increasingly embraces values and ideologies that are against Christianity? For one thing, it takes embracing the shame of the Cross. As Jesus said, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me”Continue reading “Carrying Shame with Joy”