I've always struggled with this: Moses was clearly not a man on his deathbed. Why would YHWH “put him down” with so much vigor and youth still in his bones?
Theology
From Servants and Citizens to Sonship
You see, we typically focus on the main characters, as we rightly should: the Father, the older son, and the prodigal son. But I think we sell ourselves (and the story) short if we stop there.
Consistency?
If we keep thinking “that wave was the last one,” we are in for one confusing and discouraging journey.
This Is Clearly A Rant
I’m dour because I feel like I am watching two ideologies pull at Christendom like two stray dogs fighting over a chicken bone—and the bone is trying to figure out which dog it would prefer to chew on it.
A New Frontier for Local Missions?
Here is where this all ties together—the missions numbers, church stats, and discussion of influence: should the focus of local missions change?
Re-Hitch to the Old Testament
After his resurrection, Jesus "beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself" (Luke 24:27). In other words, Jesus used the Old Testament to explain who he is to his disciples.
I Don’t Believe In Coincidences
I follow the thinking of Dr. Currid, that the plagues in Egypt were theologically polemical attacks against the gods of Egypt.
“Judas Ate Too”
So, yes, Judas ate too, but Judas also ate unto wrath and judgment.
Weston Blaha 