https://open.spotify.com/episode/5pr20IF8UP0AWeY8OAeYTS?si=Fe1lFGBDQzmx7J1UzkpOqA The call to be a wife is a difficult one. When Eve was called into “wifehood”, she was called to a responsibility of mirroring God as a helper. Of the 21 times “helper” was used in the Old Testament, 15 were in reference to God being a helper to…
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2yIzCLCGrHpGK7YJDPX75I?si=2ch1PAYCTUmvjPMXUjOV6A Matthew is recording the account of his experience with Jesus to the Jews. He recounts an interesting interaction between Jesus and some Pharisees.Mt 19 The Pharisees, as usual, are trying to trap Jesus. Their topic of choice this time – divorce. 3“Should a man be allowed to divorce his…
I woke up with eternity on my mind. Maybe because I dreamt about my cousin who passed in 2018 although the dream was very "earthly" and had nothing to do with eternity or God, even. It was a dream about changing baby nappies in a hospital and later about helping…
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3VmaAU44N2ADq0v4bil3w9?si=fKgZMVrUQEqBGtO7diYt4g The story of the prodigal son is a difficult one for me. Not because of the actual prodigal son but because of his older brother who seems to get a really bad wrap whenever this story comes up. Luke recounts the story in Chapter 15:11-32 of his book as…
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5NE1gZ8OJ6shOTZcSfHYGE?si=gvjbqoNDRGyf9RUY2EELOQ Ahab is recorded to have been the 8th king of Israel. The record of him in scripture is that he was more wicked than all the kings who had come before him, and boy there had been wicked kings before him! The author of the book (believed to be…
https://open.spotify.com/episode/51kNYMhJH0Gd9arni2TE9z?si=OLA0xvW6QlaqrOZUu80swQ Are we really exercising free will, or has God chosen His people beforehand? Should anybody bother to pray for “lost” souls, and should anybody bother preaching to anyone if they simply cannot come to salvation if they are not part of those God has predestined? Tough questions, and if…
Ahithophel is one of those Bible characters the average person is likely to have heard of but can’t quite tell what the deal about him really is. He’s not a popular jock like Moses or Judas. But he should be. Because Ahithophel is each of us at some point in…
My last blog post was made on December 2022. I had no idea it’d take me 2 whole years to write again. In fact, I wrote an almost-complete piece in 2023 which didn’t make it here, and unsuccessfully tried again in 2024. This year, I have resolved by all means…
https://open.spotify.com/episode/15Z504fT1NQlttOn6UZ2Ay?si=rL4B39FcRVGW8XAA3xY4JA I don't recall what triggered it. I simply recall sitting at my desk on a Monday morning, a little after work had begun; and I recall earnestly wanting to communicate this opinion without the possibility of limitation in the understanding of whoever was reading. I called it a rant,…
https://open.spotify.com/episode/50CYvwfxpAxAWbfCIo2pPH?si=BsQt9vE2QFGbohqpcXK_mw People. If there was one thing Jesus was about, at least if the gospels are anything to go by, it was people. Of all the great men who walked the face of the earth, who left their imprints in the sands of time, who were recorded in the books…
https://open.spotify.com/episode/7nu1f0IZ5PkmdvEg9X2tWn?si=V2Jm4OwRQau_ENEzgomxXQ Quite frankly, I have been up to my neck in this topic for long, and as much as I find it a crucial part of understanding life and purpose (both as a woman and as a man who has or intends to have a wife), I find that the…
https://open.spotify.com/episode/44b3r63hlRFKg3BfGyk2Qn?si=J_zzGPhlTBmOY2cx88oyQg “19 During the night this woman’s son died because she lay on him. 20 So she got up in the middle of the night and took my son from my side while I, your servant, was asleep. She put him by her breast and put her dead son by my breast. 21 The next…
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2Stf1YP2rhmI5unFk0faYn?si=AK9OvydhQjKfrd3KiqpxIg Lamped Feet Newsletter - "I SAW YOU NATHANAEL"Download Within the past few days, I have contemplated not publishing this post. Three out of four of the people who proofread and/or review for me thought there was ‘something missing’, or that it did not have my usual flow. And although…
https://open.spotify.com/episode/1kjkD4mQ96Y4oSzcbyw6xs?si=go5Obk0wRs-f4DVDn2_d3A As I have sat behind my screen to wrap this series up, I have struggled with how to bring it to a close. We started with questions we could not initially find answers to, and ended up last week in a place of sympathy for Saul and his insecurity,…
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6p6MOlaMBDRc5KAKzplI2l?si=-c-zmuJwSUu0fjl8OEoC9w “But I’m only from the tribe of Benjamin, the smallest tribe in Israel, and my family is the least important of all the families of that tribe! Why are you talking like this to me?” – Saul, the First King of Israel. The prophet Samuel had just told him…
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https://open.spotify.com/episode/2MGPQdUBn8KVATwatftEep?si=ymtc9kzzShCpa5ayAVt-7Q We set off in this series to ask hard questions, with no expectations as to answers. But as God would have it, we keep receiving interesting feedback that either have set us on a path of attempted answers and perspectives we never thought of for all the years we…
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2MGPQdUBn8KVATwatftEep?si=ymtc9kzzShCpa5ayAVt-7Q We set off in this series to ask hard questions, with no expectations as to answers. But as God would have it, we keep receiving interesting feedback that either have set us on a path of attempted answers and perspectives we never thought of for all the years we…
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https://open.spotify.com/episode/0exZJ0evcFFMjkv11mwKmU?si=bdcbc668d1414fbe Saul was a fine man. In fact, 1 Samuel 9 describes him as the “most handsome man in Israel” [verse 2, NLT]. On what looked like a regular day, he set off to look for his father’s lost donkeys. Saul was very likely totally oblivious of the conversation Samuel…
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https://open.spotify.com/episode/1wmGUrcBw250QhHUTcfvtQ Last week was an interesting one. On Monday, we opened a series that was supposed to set us on a journey of questions on the events in 1 and 2 Samuel. The plan was to move on to the next set of questions, but after receiving some extremely interesting…
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https://open.spotify.com/episode/3j7dLYwXAPay6rarBGmtgZ?si=iuPBzQEHSH-k13kYqX8AfA For several months, I have hidden my head in the book of Samuel as though I’d never read it before. It did feel brand new, maybe because I was reading these accounts again in a much relatable Bible translation - NLT. I had so many questions to ask, so…