Reading: Leviticus 24-25, Psalm 38 The first little section of today’s reading relates to the continual presence of light and food in the tabernacle, and then moves directly to capital punishment. Makes sense, yes? Actually I think it does, but we have to (as usual) wrench our brains out of our 21st century
Reading: Leviticus 21-23, Psalm 37 Getting tired of Leviticus? I certainly understand if you are, but the good news is we are almost through it! Something you may have noticed is that the instructions in the second half of the book (everything after chapter 16) seem very familiar, as if you had just read
Reading: Leviticus 19-20, Psalm 36 One of the great complaints made about reading the Bible is that it is long and difficult to understand. And to be fair, there are parts of this really long story that are pretty arcane. But lets give the Biblical authors some credit: they were able to write
Reading: Leviticus 16-18, Psalm 35 Well, we got here. We have reached the peak of the book of Leviticus, and the Day of Atonement for the people Israel. These chapters occupy the middle of the book, and they are framed by God’s regulation of impurity, priests, and offerings. Ancient writers liked to place
Reading: Leviticus 14-15, Psalm 34 Oh, good. More bodily discharges and leprous diseases. What a joy. Actually, there is a good amount of joy to be found here. But to understand it, we have to take a moment and think about what disease, and particularly skin disease, meant in the ancient world.
Reading: Leviticus 11-13, Psalm 33 What do you eat? What don’t you? What do you do about various bodily fluids and gooey stuff? What do you do about weird skin conditions? No, really. Think about it. We go through life without thinking about this stuff all the time- and who can blame us, really?
Reading: Leviticus 8-10, Psalm 32 Hey, we’ve made it through a month of reading the Bible! Thanks for reading along with me so far. Looking back, I hope you begin to see there are some repeated themes in the story- the human problem, that we are not who we think we are, that God will make all things new. Today we
Reading: Leviticus 5-7, Psalm 31 Yesterday we saw how substitutes for the death humans have to go through to enter God’s new creation are to be brought to the tabernacle, and talked a little about how the priests are to carry the guilt of the people until next week, when we’ll talk about
Reading: Leviticus 1-4, Psalm 30 Atonement. noun: atonement; plural noun: atonements reparation for a wrong or injury.”she wanted to make atonement for her husband’s behavior” The word atonement has a fascinating history. It appears to descend both from the middle English verb onen (to make one, unify, unite) and the Latin adunamentum (a unity of separates. A spork is
Reading: Exodus 35-40, Psalm 29 Where does your enthusiasm take you? As a child of the 1980s, I have great appreciation for side scrolling video game. I spent countless hours as a child playing the various entries in the genre: Defender, Double Dragon, and of course the king of side scrolling platform games Super Mario Bros.