Is Yahweh still the Hope of Israel? Or has the Church replaced his chosen people? Yahweh keeps his promises. 31 “The days are coming,” declares Yahweh, “when I will make a new promise to Israel and Judah. 32 It will not be like the promise that I made to their ancestors when I took them by the hand and…
This week’s name is Miqweh Yisrael, the Hope of Israel. In her book Praying the Names of God for 52 Weeks, Ann Spangler quotes one of my favorite passages. 5 “This is what Yahweh says: Cursed is the person who trusts humans, who makes flesh and blood his strength and whose heart turns away from Yahweh. 6 He will be like a…
Hope. What a beautiful word. Dictionary.com offers the synonyms of longing, aspiration, and expectancy. Yes, and it’s so much more when we’re talking about the hope we have in Yahweh. It’s something we’re waiting for with confidence that it will be accomplished. Would it be irreverent to say that God has a flair for the dramatic?…
Growing up, I battled tremendous anxiety. My stomach would be in knots every morning before school. I was terrified that I would make a fool of myself in front of my classmates. To me, that meant anything from tripping on the playground to getting less than an A+ on an assignment. I did my best…
The name of God for week 21 in Ann Spangler’s Praying the Names of God for 52 Weeks is judge, shophet. What comes to mind? A fusty, crusty curmudgeon who’s all too willing to bang his gavel and declare, “Guilty?” When I was a child, that’s what I thought. I had this vague idea that God was…