Tag Archives: Set Apart

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.”

Bald Samson.

God called His people to be different.  Holy. Set apart.  A “peculiar people.”  The nation followed complex food laws.  They circumcised every male child.  They sacrificed animals. They never worked on Saturday.  Sometimes God’s “Peculiar People” must have felt peculiar. Within Israel, there were individuals whose lives were even more peculiar: Levites, priests, and NaziritesContinue reading “Bald Samson.”

Mercy and Holiness.

What if your son treated a loaded gun like a toy? What would you do? Some things require an absolutely sober seriousness, right? It’s not about the child, but the NATURE OF THE OBJECT. Guns, by nature, command sobriety and respect. They are DIFFERENT than other things. They are SET APART. Aaron’s sons brought “unauthorizedContinue reading “Mercy and Holiness.”