It is the week of Thanksgiving—a week of gathering, feasting, celebrating, and giving thanks together.  This year I’ve been struck by a hidden aspect of giving thanks.  It’s a requirement, actually.  In reading verse after verse of biblical thanks,…

  Over the last year I have been through a significant season of involuntary pruning.  I have never experienced anything like it, nor did I realize what was going on until I was coming out of it.  In fact, I’m…

  Recently, I’ve been reading through the book of Esther and a verse stuck in my mind.  It’s after Haman issues the decree that all Jews are to be completely destroyed on a single day.  The wording of the decree…

  A week or so ago, a friend of mine asked me to look into the idea of worship from an Old Testament perspective.  She knows I’ve been studying biblical Hebrew for a couple years and was curious if the…