Today is September 10, 2025. It’s not quite September 11, but it almost feels like it. For me the day began with a host of personal and professional challenges. These problems felt serious and weighty, but about lunchtime they suddenly paled. Charlie Kirk was shot. First, I heard he was shot. Then I watched aContinue reading “Whatever the Need, the Bible Can Provide. Whatever the Question, the Bible is the Answer. Leviticus 15.”
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God Placed a Boundary Between Sex, Children, and Worship. Leviticus 12:2-4.
“If a woman conceives and bears a man child, then she shall be unclean for seven days … And on the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised, and she shall continue in her purifying for three and thirty days. She shall touch no hallowed thing, nor come into the sanctuary, untilContinue reading “God Placed a Boundary Between Sex, Children, and Worship. Leviticus 12:2-4.”
Electric Holiness. Leviticus 10:1-3.
I had to be taught to respect electricity. Before I learned, I played games with it. Once I held a long nail above a lamp plug. I loosened the plug just enough to expose the two metal prongs, but the lamp was still lit. Experience had taught me that the prongs would shock me ifContinue reading “Electric Holiness. Leviticus 10:1-3.”
You Can Trust Your Heavenly Father. Psalm 123:2.
While Susan was swinging on her swing, I picked up a wad of cut grass. “Don’t do anything, Steven,” she warned me. “My dad is in there watching you.” I glanced at the dark window across the yard. How did she know he was watching? I couldn’t see anything. But she said it all theContinue reading “You Can Trust Your Heavenly Father. Psalm 123:2.”
The Law is Your Schoolmaster. Leviticus 7:22-27.
Image: this ‘vintage ad’ is actually a parody. People who are unhappy with laws love to bring up Prohibition and then cite the old cliché, “You can’t legislate morality.” However– The failure of Prohibition proves not that you can’t legislate morality, but that you can’t legislate morality when the entire country disagrees with the legislation.Continue reading “The Law is Your Schoolmaster. Leviticus 7:22-27.”
Ignorance of the Law is No Excuse. Leviticus 4:2.
“And what was the purpose of your travel today?” “Oh, we just walked across the bridge to do a little shopping in Mexico.” I was comfortable and relaxed talking to the Border Patrol. “Took a cab over to Rancho El Rey for dinner. You ever been there?” “Okay, sir,” he ignored my question. “Now ifContinue reading “Ignorance of the Law is No Excuse. Leviticus 4:2.”
Meat, Salt, Perfection. Leviticus 1:9.
Image created with A.I. (they are getting better quickly!). Last week I met my buddies Paul and Chris for lunch at Lupe Tortilla Mexican Restaurant. After I had dutifully chosen something with the word ‘vegetable’ in the name, Paul suggested the three of us share an order of beef fajitas for two. It was Paul’sContinue reading “Meat, Salt, Perfection. Leviticus 1:9.”
Reverse Engineering a Look at the Sacrifices. Exodus 29:1.
Orville Wright famously skipped kindergarten and spent a day hiding in a barn, where he took a sewing machine apart and then put it back together. Why? To figure out how it worked. In other words, a very young Orville Wright, one of the inventors of the airplane, was able to intuit a process weContinue reading “Reverse Engineering a Look at the Sacrifices. Exodus 29:1.”
There is a Role For You in God’s Kingdom. Exodus 31:1-5.
Image: Spatter paint technique on a painting designed to look like red brick. From https://worldbydesign.blogspot.com/2014/05/spatter-is-magical-visual-texture.html Have you ever been embarrassed by a photograph? When I was a little boy, someone snapped a photo of me backstage at Jones Hall. I was about eight years old. I was in costume, makeup included, and while waiting toContinue reading “There is a Role For You in God’s Kingdom. Exodus 31:1-5.”
Draw Up the Blueprints: Jesus is Not Only the Lamb, Jesus is the Temple. Exodus 27.
Have you ever read the Bible with graph paper and a pencil? Try it! There are many places in the Old Testament where the Bible provides so much information that with just a little attention to detail, you can produce drawings to scale. For example, call each line segment one cubit. Then count ten linesContinue reading “Draw Up the Blueprints: Jesus is Not Only the Lamb, Jesus is the Temple. Exodus 27.”
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