Monthly Archive: November 2014
My thoughts on failure
Leviticus 26 is all about reward and punishment. It’s all very simple: If you do this, then……If you don’t do this, then….. If you follow my decrees, I will send you rain and the...
The Year of Jubilee
Leviticus 25 is one of the most revolutionary passages in the Bible. What God was planning for the Hebrew people was a chance in every lifetime to start again. A chance to wipe the...
The next part of the story….
Priests had to be different. Even more different than the people of Israel. They had a special role to play as mediators between God and the people. They had to keep themselves extra clean...
I closed my eyes……
Now we come to the punishments for the grievous sins we have looked into over the last few days. We’re talking child sacrifice and adultery and incest and consulting mediums and bestiality and cursing...
Right living: what really matters to God (imho lol)
Leviticus 19 is entitled Various Laws in my Bible because it is a collection of various laws – random laws on all sorts of random topics; some we have heard before, others way off...
Surely this time God forbids homosexuality?
So we have now hit the second of the “proof texts” that show us homosexuality is outlawed by God in the Bible. Do not have sexual relations with a man as one does with...
The unforgivable sins
You only have to spend an hour on Facebook to see what people consider to be unforgivable sins. Individuals rage about what has been done to innocent children and what the perpetrator deserves –...
‘Let me make it up to you….’
‘Let me make it up to you….’ That is essentially what atonement is. Atonement is a word used in churches that most of us have some understanding of but would struggle to explain. It’s...
Red Tent Thinking – this one’s for the ladies
This time last year, I was in the middle of a different project – one that only lasted 9 months so lightweight in comparison to this one! I was looking at the nine fruits...
