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confession (a new name)

On 19 July, 2011 · Leave a Comment

And Jacob was alone when a man came and wrestled with him through the night. The man said, “Let me go, for the day has broken.” But Jacob said, “I will not let you go until you bless me.” And the man said to him, “What is your name?” And he said, “Jacob.”

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the first calling

On 22 June, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Before the call to be a Christian, or even the call to be Jewish, there was a call to be human:

Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it…

It’s a calling to cultivate. A blessing from God to humanity in the first part of the book of Genesis. It’s a [...]

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with (and for)

On 8 December, 2009 · Leave a Comment

The idea of God with man is revolutionary.

But I have trouble seeing it like that – because they words are so cliché. But in the Ancient Near East, divine structures were generally closed systems. Just like there is no way to crack into a first generation iPhone, there was no way to enter the divine [...]

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