I’ve been trying to wrap my head around Daniel’s life for a few years now, and one of his job titles has me stumped. Then the king promoted Daniel and gave him many great gifts, and he made him ruler over the entire province of Babylon, and chief prefect over all the wise men of…
Yesterday we celebrated Easter. After last year’s online service, I was incredibly grateful to celebrate in person with my church family. Our church has a tradition of singing the Hallelujah Chorus on Easter, and anyone in the congregation who wants to sing along comes up and sings with the choir and orchestra. With COVID…
I’ve been wrestling with the period before the Babylonian exile and the destruction of Jerusalem for years now, trying to get my head around God’s longsuffering love and His people’s rejection of Him to follow after all sorts of false gods. Besides the fact that He is the one true God, He’s just so much…
Two weeks ago, I wrote about God loosing the loins of kings. Today, I’m captivated by a 2,500 year old toilet. What’s so interesting about a stone potty? Videos like this make me wish I’d been an archeologist. Weeds Raw meat Tapeworms Why am I excited about 2,500 year old weeds…
Baruch atah adonai elohaynu melech ha’olam I’ve been to enough Seder dinners to know that lots of traditional Jewish prayers start with this sentence. So in my book, I wanted to include it. Now I don’t know that Daniel’s mom started her Shabbat prayer with these words exactly when she lighted the…