Rise up, O God, and judge the earth, for all the nations belong to you. Psalms 82:8 Where is God’s country? Plenty...
Psalm 82 envisions a heavenly court in which God, as judge, pronounces judgment on the gods for their failure to do justice (82:1). Verses 3 and 4 contain divine imperatives, not only for heavenly...
Moses concludes with a third speech, a final appeal for obedience to God’s covenant, which will result in human thriving. It reinforces...
Human life is a series of choices, and many of these involve vocation.
When I was in graduate school, my Hebrew teacher was one of the world’s leading experts in the Hebrew language. Thomas Lambdin literally “wrote the book,” having authored what was then one of...
What difference does it make that we are bearers of the divine image in our work? One implication of this is that...
I often read the story of the Good Samaritan imagining that one day I will display the kind of heroic behavior the...