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)
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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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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)
January 8 - God’s First and Last Sabbath
שׁבת - And on the seventh day, God finished His work that He had done, And He rested on the seventh day from all His work that He had done. So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy.
GENESIS 2:2–3
January 7 - Good, Yes, Very Good
טוב - And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. (GENESIS 1:31)
January 6 - Day and Night
יום לילה
God called the light day, and the darkness He called night, and there was evening and there was morning, the first day. (GENESIS 1:5)
1 Samuel 22:1-19 (Episode 248)
David flees and finds refuge in a cave. Four hundred desperate men join up with him. And Saul visits the priest who helped David and the whole town suffers the wrath of the mad king.
January 5 - Let There Be Light!
יהי אור
Then God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. (GENESIS 1:3)
Baptized for War: The Baptism of Jesus Launched His Battles with Evil in the Wilderness and Beyond
On January 10, 49 BC, Julius Caesar crossed the river Rubicon, an act that was a declaration of war. This Sunday, January 10, we will hear about Jesus crossing the baptismal river Jordan as a declaration of war against all evil. His baptism launched a full assault against the devil and all demons, beginning in the wilderness. In this video…
January 4 - The Hovering Spirit of God
רוח אלהים
The Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. (GENESIS 1:2)
January 3 - Tohu Vavohu
תהו ובהו - The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. GENESIS 1:2
January 2 - The Beginning Word of God
בראשׁית - In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. GENESIS 1:1
January 1 - An Alphabetic Parable
ב - In the beginning... GENESIS 1:1
You Are Not Enough and Other (Un)welcome Truths for the New Year
As we prepare to begin this new year, it is helpful to remember three painfully honest truths, one of which is "You are not enough."
Has Anyone Seen Jesus? The Disappearance of Jesus and His First Words as a Wise Twelve-Year-Old in the Temple
Even at twelve years old, Jesus knew he was the Son of God. In the Jerusalem temple, he shows precocious wisdom and learning in Torah. In Luke’s telling, he deftly winks at the resurrection, when Jesus, lost in death, is found alive again.
1 Samuel 21:1-15 (Episode 247)
Is David a law-breaker? Is Jesus a law-breaker?
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