Christ in the Old Testament (181)
  1. For the past twenty years that I've been a Christian, I've not found any evidence in my reading of Judges 13-16 that qualifies Samson for the "book of faith" (Hebrews 11).
  2. Out of the corner of my eye, I can see that simple boy. An orange sky warms the deserted streets with the final glow of safe light.
  3. Old Testament narratives foreshadowed the gifts that our Father gives us in baptism.
  4. Read your life like a Hebrew, from the end to the beginning, and you will see that the last is first. The dead are alive, the cursed are blessed, the humble are exalted.
  5. To forget ourselves is to remember another, that is, to act in such a way that benefits them. That’s the problem: we don’t.
  6. I became like God’s child David, whom the Lord pardoned of his adultery and murder. I became like Noah, Abraham, Judah, Aaron, Gideon, and so many more wayward children.
  7. But in that quest for thou shalts and thou shalt nots, you’ll miss what really matters. You’ll trample the cross while racing for the tablets of stone. From the tale of Achan's theft, you’ll rob yourself of Jesus.
  8. This golden age, recorded in this genealogy, is anything but straw. It is a treasure trove of grace, faith, hope, and love.
  9. Jesus was not killed in Bethlehem as a baby, or in Galilee or Samaria as an adult. He couldn’t be, for it was necessary for him to die in Jerusalem, where Moriah is.
  10. His glory is made known precisely in the cross, His strength in weakness, His wisdom in folly, His exaltation in humiliation.
  11. In the beginning I was the Word, and I as Word was the Beginning. By me all things were created, both in the heavens and in the earth, visible and invisible. All things have been created by me and for me (Colossians 1:16). Therefore, already in the opening word of the Hebrew Bible, Bereshith, I am.
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