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Psalm 19; Acts 7:30-40; Exodus 19:9-15 (read online ⧉) When we talk about holiness or being holy, we have to start with God. We talk about each of us being unique, yet God is even more so. God was not created. God did the creating.

Genesis 24:1–27, Ruth 2:1–16, 1 Corinthians 7:1–9, Hebrews 11:13–22 (read online ⧉) Arranged marriages are nothing new. Many arranged marriages were and are political, financial, or just friends “knowing” their children should be together. The story of Isaac and Rebekah doesn’t quite fall into those…

Psalm 51, John 3:27–29 (read online ⧉) This Psalm is the result of a person’s sin. This is not to say that the Psalm is about the sin per se, but about a person standing before God after being confronted about the sin. While there…

Matthew 25:1–13 (read online ⧉) This is an odd parable. It makes some sense on the surface, but even then, not much. One of the surface tensions is that Jesus refers here to the Kingdom of God. Jesus often refers to the Kingdom having already…

Psalm 47, Psalm 48, Revelation 19:6-9 "…God ascends among shouts of joy…" Psalm 47:5 "…[God’s] holy mountain, rising splendidly, is the joy of the whole earth…" Psalm 48:1 "Let us be glad, rejoice, and give him glory because, the marriage of the Lamb has come,…