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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

Today on the Almanac, we tell the story of the Vox Pisces, a theological work found in the belly of a fish?

Scott and Caleb introduce the Augsburg Confession.

Today on the Almanac, we remember the Dominican Yves Congar and his role in the reformed Catholic teachings of Vatican II.

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

Dr. Paulson and Caleb are joined by Adam Guthmiller once again. This time they talk about faith and certainty in Luther's refutation of Erasmus.

Today on the Almanac, we go to the mailbag to answer a spiky question about Polygamy.

מקבת - But Jael the wife of Heber took a tent peg, and took a hammer in her hand. Then she went softly to [Sisera] and drove the peg into his temple until it went down into the ground while he was lying fast asleep from weariness. So he died. JUDGES 4:21

You are the man.

דבורה - Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, was judging Israel at that time. She used to sit under the palm of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim, and the people of Israel came up to her for judgment. JUDGES 4:4–5

Today on the Almanac, we remember Belgian Priest and Scientist Georges Lemaître.

Pastor Thomas Teaches On Ephesians 1:3-14