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Perspective and Agency When Facing Trials
In last week’s reflection, I made the observation that music can have a physiological impact on us, influencing even the rate at which...
Christopher Diebold
14 hours ago3 min read
Singing Praises to God as Embodied Souls
After the mighty miracle of Israel’s Red Sea crossing and Egypt’s Red Sea drowning, the people of God, whose fear of man had been turned...
Christopher Diebold
May 133 min read
Opportunities to Get What You Want
In the lead-up to the crossing of the Red Sea, YHWH tells Moses to lead the Hebrews along an erratic escape route from Egypt,...
Christopher Diebold
May 64 min read
The One Who Knows Me Better Than Myself
As the description of the Exodus resumes at the end of Exodus 13, we are invited to reflect on God’s choice of escape route: “When...
Christopher Diebold
May 14 min read
Free for Service to Christ
Immediately following the narration of the exodus from Egypt, we read in Exodus 13 that God has a claim on the firstborn of man and...
Christopher Diebold
Apr 223 min read
Imagery for the Atonement
On Easter Sunday, we have an opportunity not only to reflect on what Christ has done for us but also the effect of Christ’s death and...
Christopher Diebold
Apr 174 min read
Remembrance and Formation
In general, we can appreciate how sights, sounds, and smells can be strongly associated with certain memories. Because we inhabit time...
Christopher Diebold
Apr 83 min read
The Common and Special Operations of the Spirit
With the eighth and ninth plagues, the book of Exodus testified to the concept of God’s common grace, which is both a restraining of evil...
Christopher Diebold
Apr 13 min read
Seeing Common Grace by its (Symbolic) Absence
In Exodus 10, the plagues upon Egypt continue to increase in intensity, moving from a category of severity to extremity. The eighth and...
Christopher Diebold
Mar 253 min read
Goodness and Severity
As the conflict between God and Pharaoh continues into Exodus 9, it is notable how the intensity of the plagues increases in both their...
Christopher Diebold
Mar 203 min read
Enjoying the Fruit of Wisdom
In Exodus 8, the revelation of God through his great acts of judgment against Pharaoh and Egypt make known the fact that God does not...
Christopher Diebold
Mar 113 min read
Making Sense of Miracles
As the conflict between the God of Israel and the gods of Egypt begins in earnest in Exodus 7, Moses and Aaron must first pass the...
Christopher Diebold
Mar 43 min read
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