January 26 - God’s Retired Weapon
קשׁת - I have set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth. When I bring clouds over the earth and the bow is seen in the clouds, I…
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Chad Bird
Chad Bird is a Scholar in Residence at 1517. He has served as a pastor, professor, and guest lecturer in Old Testament and Hebrew. He holds master’s degrees from Concordia Theological Seminary and Hebrew Union College. He has contributed articles to Christianity Today, The Gospel Coalition, Modern Reformation, The Federalist, Lutheran Forum, and other journals and websites. He is also the author of several books, including Night Driving & Your God Is Too Glorious.
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Dressing Down Demons: The Hebrew Word and Theology Behind Christ’s Rebuke of an Unclean Spirit in Mark 1
When Mark says Jesus “rebukes” an unclean spirit, he uses a Greek word that’s a doorway into some fascinating Old Testament theology. In this video on Mark 1:21-28, Chad Bird peels back the layers of this “rebuking” theology in the Hebrew, gives a brief overview of synagogues, and shows how unclean spirits fit in the broader chaos of this world—and…
January 25 - The Axis of Heaven and Earth
מזבח - Then Noah built an altar to the LORD and took some of every clean animal and some of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar. (GENESIS 8:20)
1 Samuel 25:1-31 (Episode 251)
Unrequested protection, a fool, and a wise woman.
January 24 - The Prophetic and Feathered Jonah
יונה - And the dove came back to [Noah] in the evening, and behold, in her mouth was a freshly plucked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the waters had subsided from the earth. (GENESIS 8:11)
January 23 - God’s Remembering Actions
זכר - But God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the livestock that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind blow over the earth, and the waters subsided. (GENESIS 8:1)
The One Hebrew Word You Don't Want to Forget
In the Old Testament, to zakar ("remember") is not merely to rifle through the files in your head until you find that fact you’ve been searching for. To zakar is to employ your hands and feet and lips to engage in whatever action that remembrance requires.
January 22 - The Major and Minor Arks
תבה - Make yourself an ark of gopher wood. Make rooms in the ark, and cover it inside and out with pitch. (GENESIS 6:14)
January 21 - A Bad Frame of Mind
יצר - The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. (GENESIS 6:5)
January 20 - Call on the Name of Yahweh
קרא - To Seth also a son was born, and he called his name Enosh. At that time people began to call upon the name of the LORD. (GENESIS 4:26)
January 19 - The Voice of Blood
דם - And the LORD said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood is crying to me from the ground. (GENESIS 4:10)
1 Samuel 24:1-22 (Episode 250)
David gives his longest recorded speech instead of killing Saul.
January 18 - The First Two Humans
קנה - Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, “I have gotten a man with the help of the LORD.” (GENESIS 4:1)
January 17 - Riding Angels
כרוב - At the east of the garden of Eden [God] placed the cherubim and a flaming sword that turned every way to guard the way to the tree of life. (GENESIS 3:24)
January 16 - A Kick in the Pants
גרשׁ
Therefore the Lord God sent [Adam] out from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken. He drove out the man. (GENESIS 3:23–24A)
Hold on Loosely to Your Politics
Want to do yourself, your family, your friends, and the world a good deed? Hold on loosely to your politics. Don’t drop it. Don’t toss it aside. Don’t privatize it. But, above all, don’t hold on to your politics as if your life, your soul, and your salvation depend on it.
January 14 - The Seed of Promise
זרע - "I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her Offspring; He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel.” (GENESIS 3:15)
January 14 - The Seed of Promise
זרע - "I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her Offspring; He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel.” (GENESIS 3:15)
January 13 - Take and Eat
אכל - So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit…
January 12 - Naked and Crafty
ערום - And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed. Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field that the Lord God had made. (GENESIS 2:25–3:1)
1 Samuel 22:20-23:29 (Episode 249)
A runaway priest, a mad king, and a final meeting.
January 11 - Ish and Ishsha
אישׁ אשׁה - Then the man said, “This, at last, is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called woman because she was taken out of man.” (GENESIS 2:23)
January 10 - The Garden in Eden
גן עדן - And the Lord God planted a garden In Eden, in the east, and there He put the man whom He had formed. (GENESIS 2:8)
January 9 - The Earth Man
אדם - Then the LORD God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature. (GENESIS 2:7)
January 9 - The Earth Man
אדם - Then the LORD God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature. (GENESIS 2:7)
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