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June 25 - God the Refiner

06/25/21

3 mins

By Chad Bird

צרף - And the Lord said to Gideon, “The people are still too many. Take them down to the water, and I will test them for you there, and anyone of whom I say to you, ‘This one shall go with you,’ shall go with you, and anyone of whom I say to you, ‘This one shall not go with you,’ shall not go.” JUDGES 7:4
- Hebrew
Friday, June 25, 2021

06/25/21

7 mins

By Dan van Voorhis | Christopher Gillespie

Today on the Almanac, we remember Ingwer Ludwig Nommensen, the German Dane in a Dutch Mission on the Island of Sumatra.
- ARTS AND CULTURE
- Christian History
June 24 - Gideon’s Nickname

06/24/21

3 mins

By Chad Bird

ירבעל - But Joash said to all who stood against him, “Will you contend for Baal? Or will you save him? Whoever contends for him shall be put to death by morning. If he is a god, let him contend for himself, because his altar has been broken down.” Therefore on that day Gideon was called Jerubbaal, that is to say, “Let Baal contend against him,” because he broke down his altar. JUDGES 6:31–32
- Hebrew
Thursday, June 24, 2021

06/24/21

8 mins

By Dan van Voorhis | Christopher Gillespie

Today on the Almanac, we remember a man who in the late 19th century was both a pastor and “the most famous man in America.”
- ARTS AND CULTURE
- Christian History
Mark 2:23-3:30 (Episode 218)

06/23/21

1 min

By Daniel Emery Price | Erick Sorensen

The Sabbath and the unforgivable sin.
- New Testament
- Scripture
210a: Hitchens - Religion is the first chance to explain human nature and the natural order

06/23/21

6 mins

By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley

“We were baffled by climatic and cataclysmic events: earthquakes, tidal waves, storms, lightning. All of this was to us terrifying. Religion works as an attempt, then, to make sense of things. We are pattern-seeking mammals, after all. It’s a good thing that we are, because if we weren’t pattern-seeking mammals, our curiosity would have no outlet and we wouldn’t be capable of the great innovations that have liberated us from so many things, including religion.”
- Christian History
- Ministry of the Church
Gretchen's Books

06/23/21

1 min

By Katie Koplin | Gretchen Ronnevik

It's Gretchen's turn to talk about books that have been influential on her life.
- Education
- Practical Theology
June 23 - The Canaanite Consorts

06/23/21

3 mins

By Chad Bird

בעל אשׁרה - That night the Lord said to [Gideon], “Take your father's bull, and the second bull seven years old, and pull down the altar of Baal that your father has, and cut down the Asherah that is beside it and build an altar to the Lord your God on the top of the stronghold here, with stones laid in due order. Then take the second bull and offer it as a burnt offering with the wood of the Asherah that you shall cut down.” JUDGES 6:25–26
- Hebrew
Wednesday, June 23, 2021

06/23/21

9 mins

By Dan van Voorhis | Christopher Gillespie

Today on the Almanac, we tell the story of the Vox Pisces, a theological work found in the belly of a fish?
- ARTS AND CULTURE
- Christian History
A Crisis in Christianity

06/22/21

1 min

By Scott Keith | Caleb Keith

Scott and Caleb introduce the Augsburg Confession.
- Augsburg Confession
- Reformation History
Tuesday, June 22, 2021

06/22/21

7 mins

By Dan van Voorhis | Christopher Gillespie

Today on the Almanac, we remember the Dominican Yves Congar and his role in the reformed Catholic teachings of Vatican II.
- ARTS AND CULTURE
- Christian History
June 22 - The Locust

06/22/21

3 mins

By Chad Bird

ארבה - [The Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the East] would encamp against them and devour the produce of the land, as far as Gaza, and leave no sustenance in Israel and no sheep or ox or donkey. For they would come up with their livestock and their tents; they would come like locusts in number—both they and their camels could not be counted—so that they laid waste the land as they came in. JUDGES 6:4–5
- Hebrew