One more reflection on yesterday’s text: Being a disciple of Jesus is hard. It means taking on behaviors that go against our own natural proclivities and desires, so we have to work at it and fight against ourselves. Stressful. It also means taking on behaviors that go against society’s norms and expectations, so we find […]
“Who do you say that I am?” Jesus asked His disciples. And the answers were what you would expect from this motley group of first century Jewish men. “Some say John the Baptist.” Some, most notably Herod Antipas (who had been set up to behead John the Baptist in the first place) believed Jesus to […]
The story of Balaam is, in a word, unbelievable. If it weren’t scripture, I’d call it a fable reminiscent of Aesop. But as scripture, it is God’s Word and so true in all it teaches. And it teaches a lot. It’s amazing to me that God is working for my benefit in ways I don’t […]
I’m listening to the book, “Behave” by Robert Sapolsky. Subtitled “the biology of humans at our best and worst”, this book looks at human behavior from as many different disciplines as possible from the socio-political to the biological to the neurochemical. I’m just starting and it’s already pushing the limit of my college-level psychology major. […]
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