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The Sabbath for the Descendants of Slaves
People think the sabbath is antiquated; I think it will save us for ourselves… When we rest, we do so in memory of rest denied. We receive what has been withheld from ourselves and our ancestors. And... -
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Identity and Work
Is your last name Smith, Miller, Cooper, or Baker? Many surnames have their origin in the trades that your ancestors were identified with. Today, especially with the rise of the “gig economy,” people ... -
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Decended from Royalty
The actress Brooke Shields has quite an impressive family mosaic. Hanging from her family tree are the likes of Charlemagne, El Cid, William the Conqueror, the royal houses of virtually every European... -
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Patrilineal & Patrilocal Life in Ancient Israel
The term patrilineal has to do with tracing ancestral descent (and therefore tribal affiliation and inheritance) through the male line. In Israel the possessions of a particular lineage were carefully... -
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Story as Worldview and the Example of Passover
Stories, after all, are one of the most basic modes of human life and are a characteristic expression of worldview. Human life is constituted by a series of stories, implicit and explicit, that makes ... -
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His Tree, My Tree
Every year at Christmastime, the world looks back two thousand years to the birth of a baby. But for more than four thousand years, people living on the other side of that birth looked forward to the ... -
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The Dayenu: It Would Have Been Enough
For millennia Jews have celebrated Passover to commemorate God’s rescue of their ancestors from slavery in Egypt. Passover begins with the Seder, a ritual feast. In its liturgy is the Dayenu, which me... -
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Tech is Too Easy
Now, technology is everywhere. I don’t mean just glowing screens and digital devices; I mean the whole apparatus of “easy everywhere” that has come into existence in just over the span of one human li... -
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The Creation of Artificial Time
We all know our world has sped up to a frenetic pace. We feel it in our bones, not to mention on the freeway. But it hasn’t always been this way. Let me nerd out on you for a few minutes just to show... -
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The Secret to Happiness Among the Famous
We’ve all seen and loved the movies about the young underdog becoming a star. I won’t claim to be 100 percent immune to it. In fact, I think there’s something natural about wanting to be famous, in te... -
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Defining Home
In her book Keeping Place: Reflections on the Meaning of Home , Jen Pollock Michel reflects on the nature of home in a transient age. In this short excerpt, Michel focuses on etymology of home in v... -
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The Patterns of Our Achievements
People don’t rise from nothing. We do owe something to parentage and patronage. The people who stand before kings may look like they did it all themselves. But in fact they are invariably the benefici... -
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Our Overstory and Understory
In the world of ecology, the tallest trees in a forest form a canopy that is called the overstory. It provides shade for the understory—all the vegetation that grows beneath the uppermost layer of fol... -
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Bearing the Family Likeness
The anthropologist Desmond Morris has written: ‘Human beings are animals. They are sometimes monsters, sometimes magnificent, but always animals.’ That statement is correct as far as it goes. We are c... -
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Dust and Creation
Contrast the creation of the first man according to Genesis 2 with the creation of the first human beings according to Mesopotamian tradition. Both start with dust or clay, but then the accounts vary.... -
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Forgetting Death
According to Greek mythology, people once knew in advance their exact day of death. Everyone on earth lived with a deep sense of melancholy, for mortality hung like a sword suspended above them. All t... -
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Created from the Same Dust
Across all barriers of land and language, wealth and poverty, knowledge and ignorance, we are one, created from the same dust, subject to the same laws, and destined for the same end. With this compas... -
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The End of Human History
They took the body down from the cross and one of the few rich men among the first Christians obtained permission to bury it in a rock tomb in his garden the Romans setting a military guard lest there... -
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Cultivating Responsibility Towards the Future
Ironically, the best way to develop an attitude of responsibility toward the future is to cultivate a sense of responsibility toward the past. … We are born into a world that we didn’t make, and it is... -
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Just a stain in the soil
I love a British TV show called Time Team. Hosted by Tony Robinson, a team of archeologists descend on a site in Britain and excavate for three days. Inevitably, the archeologists unearth the dead... -
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Eden a Temple, Adam a Priest
John Walton, in The Lost World of Adam and Eve, argues that the Garden of Eden should be seen as a sacred space (a kind of "Holy of Holies") set off from the rest of creation, with the seven... -
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The “Estate”
Lifelong family friends own more than a thousand acres of land deep in Southern Mississippi, which they refer to as “the estate.” There isn’t a holiday get-together that passes without the family meet... -
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A Dual Identity
Some of my favorite heroes have a dual identity: Clark Kent is Superman; Bruce Wayne is Batman; Peter Parker is Spider-Man. The list goes on and on. You and I also have a dual identity, though, unlike... -
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Fires, Earthquakes, Thunderbolts, and Fathers
In his excellent book, The Magnificent Story , James Bryan Smith shares a true story from Japanese culture that illustrates just how demanding strict disciplinarian fathers can be. The Japanese... -
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Naming and Creation
Names in the ancient world were associated with identity, role and function. Consequently, naming is a typical part of the creation narratives. The Egyptian Memphite Theology identifies the Creator as... -
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Comparing the Genesis Creation Account with their Neighbors
The Jews were not the only religious people in the ancient world. There were others, such as the Akkadians, Egyptians, and Phoenicians, and they had their own creation stories. When one compares the ... -
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Descent and Resurrection
In the Christian story God descends to reascend. He comes down; down from the heights of absolute being into time and space, down into humanity; down further still, if embryologists are right, to reca... -
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Returning Home
There is a deep longing in every human heart to return to our ancestral home. Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young sing about this in their song “Woodstock”: “We got to get ourselves back to the garden.” T... -
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Sexuality is Intrinsic to all Human Life
Think how intertwined sex is with the very reality of human existence. You simply would not exist without the sexual union of your parents . . . and their parents . . . and their parents . . . and the... -
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Requesting an Inheritance While the Father is Still Alive
In his book Poet and Peasant and Through Peasant Eyes , professor and missionary Kenneth Bailey unlocked some very interesting features of the parable of the prodigal son, here focused on what it m...
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- Reputation (8)
- Rescue (12)
- Resentment (5)
- Resilience (17)
- Resistance (6)
- Resisting Change (4)
- Resisting Temptation (4)
- Respect (5)
- Responsibility (9)
- Rest (19)
- Restoration (6)
- Resurrection (15)
- Resurrection to New Life (4)
- Retreat (5)
- Returning to God (3)
- Revelation (13)
- Rhythms of Rest (4)
- Right Relationships (4)
- Righteousness (14)
- Risk-Management (3)
- Risks (7)
- Rituals (5)
- Roman World (7)
- Romantic Relationships (12)
- Rootedness (4)
- Routines (4)
- Royalty (3)
- Rules (6)
- The Reliability of Scripture (3)
- The Roman Empire (14)
S
- Sabbath (26)
- Sacrifice (17)
- Sacrificial Giving (4)
- Sacrificial Living (3)
- Safety (6)
- Salt (5)
- Salvation (18)
- Sanctification (18)
- Satan (6)
- Satisfaction (6)
- Savior (3)
- Scars (7)
- Science (18)
- Science and Religion (6)
- Screens (6)
- Scripture (26)
- Seasons (5)
- Secularism (9)
- Seeking God (5)
- Seeking Happiness (5)
- Seeking Power (6)
- Seeking the Truth (9)
- Segregation (11)
- Self-Absorption (6)
- Self-Acceptance (4)
- Self-Achievement (5)
- Self-Awareness (14)
- Self-Centeredness (5)
- Self-Control (7)
- Self-Deception (17)
- Self-Destruction (4)
- Self-Discipline (5)
- Self-Discovery (4)
- Self-Examination (5)
- Self-Glory (4)
- Self-Image (6)
- Self-Improvement (4)
- Self-Justification (5)
- Self-Love (5)
- Self-Reliance (4)
- Self-Righteousness (5)
- Self-Sacrifice (5)
- Self-Sufficiency (4)
- Selfishness (11)
- Selflessness (6)
- Sermon on the Mount (12)
- Servanthood (4)
- Service (15)
- Sex (22)
- Sexual License (4)
- Sexual Temptation (5)
- Shame (14)
- Sheep (8)
- Shepherd (6)
- Shepherds (13)
- Sight (5)
- Silence (13)
- Simplicity (6)
- Sin (27)
- Sinfulness (7)
- Sinners (6)
- Sins (16)
- Sins of the Church (6)
- Skepticism (9)
- Skin (3)
- Slavery (24)
- Sleep (5)
- Slowing Down (6)
- Smart Phones (10)
- Social Class (5)
- Social Justice (9)
- Social Media (23)
- Social Status (4)
- Society (5)
- Soil (5)
- Solitude (12)
- Spectacle (4)
- Spiritual Attacks (4)
- Spiritual Blindness (5)
- Spiritual Direction (5)
- Spiritual Discernment (4)
- Spiritual Disciplines (11)
- Spiritual Formation (11)
- Spiritual Growth (7)
- Spiritual Health (4)
- Spiritual Maturity (5)
- Spiritual Nurture (11)
- Spiritual Practices (4)
- Spiritual Thirst (4)
- Spiritual Transformation (10)
- Sports (11)
- Status (3)
- Status Quo (5)
- Staying Humble (4)
- Stereotypes (3)
- Stewardship (16)
- Stories (23)
- Storms (5)
- Strength (8)
- Stress (9)
- Struggles (10)
- Submission (7)
- Suburbs (4)
- Success (22)
- Suffering (23)
- Surprise (3)
- Surrender (13)
- The Sacraments (5)
- The Saints (8)
- The Soul (12)
- The Spiritual Life (6)
- The Star of Bethlehem (4)
T
- Talking (7)
- Teaching (6)
- Technological Progress (5)
- Technology (37)
- Teenagers (4)
- Temptation (12)
- Ten Commandments (5)
- Thankfulness (7)
- Thanksgiving (General) (8)
- The Temple (6)
- The Trinity (11)
- The Twelve Disciples (5)
- Theology (4)
- Therapy (4)
- Thoughts (13)
- Threats (8)
- Threats to the Church (5)
- Time (12)
- Timekeeping (4)
- Toughness (4)
- Tradition (8)
- Tragedy (12)
- Training (5)
- Transformation (22)
- Trauma (7)
- Travel (4)
- Treasure (4)
- Trees (7)
- Trials (4)
- Trouble (6)
- True Self (5)
- Trust (9)
- Trust in God (11)
- Truth (15)
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V
W
- Waiting (15)
- Waiting on God (6)
- Wants (6)
- War (10)
- Weakness (10)
- Wealth (15)
- Weddings (5)
- Welcome (4)
- Western Culture (26)
- Wilderness (16)
- Willpower (4)
- Wisdom (7)
- Witnesses (7)
- Women (5)
- Wonder (9)
- Words (10)
- Work (30)
- Work and Rest (5)
- Work-Life Balance (9)
- Workaholism (3)
- Works-Righteousness (8)
- World (14)
- Worldliness (4)
- Worldly Power (7)
- Worldview (8)
- Worship (20)
- Wounds (10)
Illustration_categories by Reference
Genesis
- Gen 1 (71)
- Gen 2 (53)
- Gen 3 (21)
- Gen 4 (9)
- Gen 5 (1)
- Gen 6 (3)
- Gen 8 (7)
- Gen 9 (3)
- Gen 11 (9)
- Gen 12 (15)
- Gen 13 (2)
- Gen 15 (3)
- Gen 16 (1)
- Gen 17 (2)
- Gen 18 (7)
- Gen 19 (2)
- Gen 21 (3)
- Gen 22 (9)
- Gen 25 (1)
- Gen 26 (2)
- Gen 27 (6)
- Gen 28 (3)
- Gen 29 (2)
- Gen 32 (7)
- Gen 33 (1)
- Gen 35 (2)
- Gen 36 (1)
- Gen 37 (4)
- Gen 39 (4)
- Gen 41 (4)
- Gen 45 (1)
- Gen 47 (1)
- Gen 50 (14)
Exodus
- Exod 1 (3)
- Exod 2 (4)
- Exod 3 (30)
- Exod 4 (6)
- Exod 5 (4)
- Exod 6 (2)
- Exod 7 (1)
- Exod 10 (1)
- Exod 12 (3)
- Exod 13 (3)
- Exod 14 (12)
- Exod 15 (2)
- Exod 16 (12)
- Exod 17 (1)
- Exod 18 (3)
- Exod 19 (3)
- Exod 20 (23)
- Exod 21 (1)
- Exod 22 (3)
- Exod 23 (4)
- Exod 24 (3)
- Exod 25 (2)
- Exod 26 (1)
- Exod 27 (1)
- Exod 30 (2)
- Exod 31 (4)
- Exod 32 (15)
- Exod 33 (12)
- Exod 34 (8)
- Exod 35 (2)
- Exod 40 (2)
Numbers
Deuteronomy
1 Samuel
1 Kings
1 Chronicles
Esther
Job
Psalm
- Ps 1 (16)
- Ps 2 (4)
- Ps 3 (4)
- Ps 4 (2)
- Ps 5 (1)
- Ps 7 (1)
- Ps 8 (10)
- Ps 9 (1)
- Ps 10 (2)
- Ps 11 (1)
- Ps 12 (1)
- Ps 13 (5)
- Ps 14 (3)
- Ps 15 (2)
- Ps 16 (8)
- Ps 17 (1)
- Ps 18 (3)
- Ps 19 (24)
- Ps 20 (3)
- Ps 22 (11)
- Ps 23 (33)
- Ps 24 (9)
- Ps 25 (9)
- Ps 27 (15)
- Ps 30 (3)
- Ps 31 (3)
- Ps 32 (5)
- Ps 33 (4)
- Ps 34 (35)
- Ps 36 (1)
- Ps 37 (22)
- Ps 39 (1)
- Ps 40 (2)
- Ps 41 (1)
- Ps 42 (22)
- Ps 43 (2)
- Ps 46 (27)
- Ps 48 (1)
- Ps 49 (2)
- Ps 50 (4)
- Ps 51 (24)
- Ps 54 (1)
- Ps 55 (3)
- Ps 56 (6)
- Ps 57 (1)
- Ps 59 (1)
- Ps 60 (2)
- Ps 62 (4)
- Ps 63 (9)
- Ps 65 (3)
- Ps 68 (2)
- Ps 69 (1)
- Ps 72 (9)
- Ps 73 (6)
- Ps 74 (1)
- Ps 77 (3)
- Ps 78 (4)
- Ps 82 (10)
- Ps 84 (3)
- Ps 85 (1)
- Ps 86 (3)
- Ps 88 (3)
- Ps 90 (15)
- Ps 91 (5)
- Ps 92 (1)
- Ps 94 (2)
- Ps 95 (3)
- Ps 96 (6)
- Ps 100 (6)
- Ps 101 (2)
- Ps 102 (1)
- Ps 103 (19)
- Ps 104 (11)
- Ps 105 (1)
- Ps 106 (1)
- Ps 107 (1)
- Ps 110 (2)
- Ps 111 (1)
- Ps 112 (2)
- Ps 115 (5)
- Ps 116 (2)
- Ps 118 (7)
- Ps 119 (30)
- Ps 121 (3)
- Ps 127 (12)
- Ps 128 (2)
- Ps 130 (6)
- Ps 131 (3)
- Ps 133 (6)
- Ps 135 (1)
- Ps 136 (6)
- Ps 137 (1)
- Ps 139 (41)
- Ps 141 (4)
- Ps 142 (1)
- Ps 143 (3)
- Ps 144 (1)
- Ps 145 (7)
- Ps 146 (9)
- Ps 147 (11)
- Ps 150 (1)
Proverbs
- Prov 1 (3)
- Prov 2 (3)
- Prov 3 (41)
- Prov 4 (17)
- Prov 5 (4)
- Prov 6 (2)
- Prov 9 (2)
- Prov 10 (3)
- Prov 11 (7)
- Prov 12 (9)
- Prov 13 (4)
- Prov 14 (14)
- Prov 15 (14)
- Prov 16 (24)
- Prov 17 (6)
- Prov 18 (18)
- Prov 19 (12)
- Prov 20 (5)
- Prov 21 (4)
- Prov 22 (13)
- Prov 23 (2)
- Prov 24 (3)
- Prov 25 (4)
- Prov 26 (4)
- Prov 27 (9)
- Prov 28 (4)
- Prov 29 (6)
- Prov 30 (2)
- Prov 31 (17)
Ecclesiastes
Song of Solomon
Isaiah
- Isa 1 (17)
- Isa 2 (3)
- Isa 5 (4)
- Isa 6 (21)
- Isa 7 (7)
- Isa 9 (19)
- Isa 11 (4)
- Isa 12 (1)
- Isa 14 (2)
- Isa 21 (1)
- Isa 25 (5)
- Isa 26 (10)
- Isa 28 (4)
- Isa 29 (5)
- Isa 30 (24)
- Isa 32 (2)
- Isa 33 (3)
- Isa 35 (2)
- Isa 40 (45)
- Isa 41 (17)
- Isa 42 (11)
- Isa 43 (19)
- Isa 44 (4)
- Isa 45 (9)
- Isa 46 (4)
- Isa 49 (4)
- Isa 50 (1)
- Isa 51 (2)
- Isa 52 (2)
- Isa 53 (28)
- Isa 54 (4)
- Isa 55 (37)
- Isa 56 (3)
- Isa 57 (4)
- Isa 58 (20)
- Isa 59 (3)
- Isa 60 (5)
- Isa 61 (15)
- Isa 62 (1)
- Isa 64 (9)
- Isa 65 (6)
- Isa 66 (1)
Jeremiah
Lamentations
Joel
Amos
Zephaniah
Malachi
Matthew
- Matt 1 (13)
- Matt 2 (20)
- Matt 3 (6)
- Matt 4 (31)
- Matt 5 (69)
- Matt 6 (74)
- Matt 7 (30)
- Matt 8 (7)
- Matt 9 (8)
- Matt 10 (14)
- Matt 11 (27)
- Matt 12 (12)
- Matt 13 (17)
- Matt 14 (9)
- Matt 15 (8)
- Matt 16 (17)
- Matt 17 (3)
- Matt 18 (22)
- Matt 19 (10)
- Matt 20 (10)
- Matt 21 (10)
- Matt 22 (18)
- Matt 23 (34)
- Matt 24 (10)
- Matt 25 (34)
- Matt 26 (18)
- Matt 27 (6)
- Matt 28 (18)