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Anna S wrote a new blog post: Family management 3 years, 2 months ago · View
If anyone does not know how to manage his own family, how can he take care of God’s church? I don’t really know what to think about this bit. When I was younger, I would have consigned this passage to the “yeah, whatever Paul!” category in my mind. But now I think that it is something [...]
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Anna S commented on the blog post comforting 3 years, 3 months ago · View
I’ve also been feeling pretty down over the last few days. On one hand – desperately wanting to be able to trust God wholeheartedly with stuff going on around me, and on the other hand – falling far short of that. Which frustrates me! Sometimes I find the tension in the ‘Now and Not Yet’ [...]
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Anna S wrote a new blog post: God and brains 3 years, 3 months ago · View
As I read Luke 1, I was struck by the questions that Zechariah and Mary asked. Being a fairly analytical person (that might be putting it mildly!), I tend to think through something before leaping into it enthusiastically. I can imagine that if I were in Zechariah or Mary’s shoes, my first reaction probably wouldn’t have been “Yeah! [...]
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Anna S commented on the blog post genealogies – yawn! 3 years, 3 months ago · View
In a tenuously related note (i.e. lists of names in the Bible), the other day I was reading 2 Samuel 23, which includes a list of “David’s mighty men”. After a dozen names (Zalmon the Ahohite, Maharai the Netophathite …) I was tempted to skip to the end of that section, but I didn’t. Right [...]
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Anna S commented on the blog post Genocide in the OT 3 years, 6 months ago · View
When I read a few days ago about the golden calf incident, I guess I’d forgotten from previous readings about the bit where the Levites kill 3000 of their fellow brothers/friends/neighbours. So when Moses says “You have committed a great sin”, I initially thought he might mean murder (which would seem odd, since he’d just [...]
