Evangelicia Blog

Letting Go of the Baggage

2024-01-24 06:22 1 Maccabees 9:36. "But the sons of Jambri from Medeba came out and seized John and all that he had, and departed with it." John is Jonathan Maccabeus' brother who has been sent to seek permission ...

Bringing All of Creation Into Harmony

2024-01-23 05:50 Wisdom 19:18. "For the elements changed places with one another, as on a harp the notes vary the nature of the rhythm, while each note remains the same... ." This verse is from part of the Exodus ...

God Sometimes Asks Things of Us We Don't Understand

2024-01-22 09:24 Ezekiel 4:9. "And you, take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and spelt, and put them into a single vessel, and make bread of them. During the number of days that you lie on your side, three...

Are We Being Called to Repentance? (Hint: The Answer is Always Yes!)

2024-01-20 11:37 Isaiah 13:5. "They come from a distant land, from the land of the heavens, the Lord and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole earth." This is from an oracle about the destruction of...

Gaslighting Jeremiah (and Ourselves)

2024-01-19 09:05 Jeremiah 43:2-3. "Azariah and all the insolent men said to Jeremiah, 'You are telling a lie. The Lord our God did not send you to say, 'Do not go to Egypt to live there'; but Baruch ... ha...

Rooting Out Our Idols

2024-01-18 06:15 Daniel 3:19. "Then Nebuchadnezzar was filled with fury, and the expression of his face was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. He ordered the furnace heated seven times more than it was w...

Breaches of Faith, and Required Justice

2024-01-17 05:58 Leviticus 5:14-15. "The Lord said to Moses, 'If anyone commits a breach of faith and sins unwittingly in any of the holy things of the Lord, he shall bring, as his guilt offering to the Lord, a ra...

Letting in the Spirit of Evil

2024-01-16 06:12 Leviticus 13:8. "[A]nd the priest shall make an examination, and if the eruption has spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean, it is leprosy." All of chapter 13 of Leviticus...

Beware When One Obeys You While Others Refuse

2024-01-15 10:33 1 Samuel 22:19. "And Nob, the city of the priests, he put to the sword; both men and women, children and sucklings, oxen, asses and sheep, he put to the sword." The "he" here is Doeg, a herdsman, ...

Facing Down Fear

2024-01-13 09:50 Psalm 56:11. "[I]n God I trust without a fear. What can man do to me?" I used to read things like this and think "Man can do a whole lot to me! Just look at all the violence, torture, and abuse go...