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Monthly Archives: July 2017
Exodus 22: Boundaries, Trust and Reconciliation
Exodus 22:1-15 Expanding the Commandment on Stealing When someone steals an ox or a sheep, and slaughters it or sells it, the thief shall pay five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.1 The thief shall make … Continue reading
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Tagged Boundaries, Reconciliation, Resorative Justice, Stealing
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Who Cares if One More Light Goes Out? I Do
Who cares if one more light goes out In a sky of a million stars It flickers, flickers Who cares when someone’s time runs out If a moment is all we are Or quicker, quicker Who cares if one more … Continue reading
Posted in Media and Music Reflections
Tagged Chester Bennington, Depression, Linkin Park, Music, RIP Chester, Suicide
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Paper Ships
Another paper ship sinks amid depression’s black sea Too fragile to withstand the storms it encountered Absorbing the waters it intended to sail upon Drinking in the inky waters of the abyss Leviathan lurks below the water’s edge And … Continue reading
Exodus 21: Slavery, Capital Crimes and Responsibility for Property
Exodus 21: 1-11 On Slavery These are the ordinances that you shall set before them: 2 When you buy a male Hebrew slave, he shall serve six years, but in the seventh he shall go out a free person, without … Continue reading
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Tagged abortion, Animal Responsibility, Capital Punishment, Debt, Exodus, Exodus 21, Slavery
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Exodus 20- The Decalogue
Exodus 20: 1-17 The Ten Words Then God spoke all these words: 2 I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery; 3 you shall have no other … Continue reading
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Tagged Exodus, Exodus 20, Law, Ten Commandments, Torah
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Exodus 19: Arriving at Sinai to Encounter God
Exodus 19: 1-9 Borne on Eagles Wings to Sinai On the third new moon after the Israelites had gone out of the land of Egypt, on that very day, they came into the wilderness of Sinai. 2 They had journeyed … Continue reading
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Tagged Exodus, Exodus 19, Holiness, Mount Sinai, Priestly Kingdom, Sanctification, Vocation
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