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Ezekiel 14:12-23, Not Enough Righteous People
Strawberries are wonderful, unless you let them sit too long. They start getting moldy and mushy. It seems as if when one gets moldy it starts to spread to others, infecting all of them. At this point
Continue reading...Ezekiel 14:1-11, Idols on Their Hearts
We aren’t much for amulets, protective charms, or even prophets in our current culture. That’s only for superstitious people. We find protection in other “gods,” like guns, alarm
Continue reading...Ezekiel 13, False Prophets and Prophetesses
“Ignorance of the law is no excuse.” Wikipedia says, “The rationale of the doctrine is that if ignorance were an excuse, a person charged with criminal offenses, or a subject of a civil
Continue reading...Ezekiel 12, Rationalizing
It seems odd that Ezekiel is prophesying to the Israelites in exile in Babylon about the judgment coming on Jerusalem. They’ve already experienced the judgment promised in the covenant ratification
Continue reading...Ezekiel 11, The Pot and the Meat
Moses prophesied in Deuteronomy 30, before Israel even took the land of Canaan, that Israel would so violate the covenant with Yahweh in the future that He would cast her out of the land. But Moses also
Continue reading...Ezekiel 10, The Glory of Yahweh Departs
In Ezekiel’s vision of his transportation to Jerusalem to see the idolatry and injustice of that city, Yahweh reports that His people already believe He has abandoned them. But He hadn’t…yet.
Continue reading...Ezekiel 9, Defile and Fill
The slasher/horror movie genre works by having lurking malicious killers suddenly springing into action with terrifying weapons that usually slice. Ezekiel’s vision of being transported to Jerusalem
Continue reading...Ezekiel 8, God of Glory and Idol of Jealousy
It is the stock in trade of mysteries, sci-fi movies and the adventure genre. The hero follows some people into an enclosure and when he sneaks to where they are congregated, he sees some weird ceremony
Continue reading...Ezekiel 7, the Siege Continues
I have a confession to make. I love Sour Punch Straws. They are long strands of chewy candy coated in sour sugar. It ends up being a sweet taste after a punch of sour. This might be an apt way to describe
Continue reading...Ezekiel 6, Idolatry as Adultery
When I used to work with young adults at my church, we took an annual pilgrimage to Pinnacle Mountain in Little Rock, Arkansas. We would hike to the top and spend time worshiping God there. Something about
Continue reading...Ezekiel 5, Siege, part 2
I now have a granddaughter who is a hair stylist. Yesterday she came over and cut my hair, her grandmother’s hair, and her aunt’s hair. Needless to say we had some vacuuming to do afterward.
Continue reading...Ezekiel 4, Modeling Siege
I recently had the privilege of visiting the Parthenon in Athens, and the Acropolis Museum that sits at the foot of the Acropolis. In the museum was a Lego duplicate of the acropolis with the Parthenon
Continue reading...Ezekiel 3:22-27, The Silent Prophet/Priest
Calvin Coolidge served as the 30th president of the United States from 1923 to 1929, and was nicknamed “Silent Cal.” Though he was considered a skilled and effective public speaker, privately
Continue reading...Ezekiel 3:16-21, The Watchman
When I was in my second or third year as a Christian I was familiarized with the Campus Crusade for Christ booklet called The Four Spiritual Laws. Crusade had also created a survey questionnaire that could
Continue reading...Ezekiel 3:4-15, Hardened and Obstinate
Before there was Angel Studios’ TV series The Chosen, there was Haim Potok’s book The Chosen. Potok tells the story of a Hasidic Jewish family whose son has a photographic memory and who is
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