Category: Marriage

Leviticus 25–27: Jubilee & Covenant

.Reading time 17 minutes.

“‘You shall thus set apart as holy the fiftieth year and
proclaim a release through the land to all its inhabitants.
It shall be a jubilee for you.’”

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Proverbs 5–6: Honey & Wormwood

.Reading time 6 minutes.

For the lips of a strange woman drip honey
And smoother than oil is her speech;
But her end is bitter as wormwood,
Sharp as a two‑edged sword.

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Song of Solomon 7–8

.Reading time 1 minute.

Read the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 52: Thursday “Put me like a seal over your heart, Like a seal on your arm. For love is as strong as death, Jealousy is as severe as Sheol; Its flashes are flashes of fire, The very flame of the LORD. “Many waters cannot quench love, Nor will […]

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Creation & Women

.Reading time 11 minutes.

The role and nature of women has now been in continual debate for an entire generation. I wrote about the consequent calamity and my personal experience of this crisis in my first post on 1 Timothy 2:9–15. In this post I want to look at who God created us to be as women. Paul’s commands […]

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1 Timothy 2:9–15: Creation, the Fall, & Women

.Reading time 12 minutes.

Read the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 33: Sunday “Likewise, I want women to adorn themselves with proper clothing, modestly and discreetly, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly garments, but rather by means of good works, as is proper for women making a claim to godliness. “A woman must quietly receive […]

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Leviticus 25–27: Jubilee & God’s Covenant

.Reading time 4 minutes.

Read the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 32: Monday “You shall thus consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim a release through the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you, and each of you shall return to his own property, and each of you shall return to his family.” Leviticus 25:10 […]

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