The Wise, the Fool, and the Simple in Proverbs
Proverbs gets treated like a fortune cookie a lot of the time. People pull isolated one-liners out of it about ants and money and staying out of trouble, and they miss what the book is actually doing. Proverbs opens by naming three specific kinds of people, and it doesn’t assume you might become one of […]
Moses and Fear: From Fearful to Fearing the Lord
We remember Moses as the guy who stood up to Pharaoh, split the sea, and walked down a mountain with the Law in his hands. What we don’t talk about nearly as much is how afraid he was through most of it. Fear followed Moses from a basket on the Nile all the way to […]