As I continue to think about the definition of biblical womanhood, the very-familiar story of the Shunammite woman who helped Elisha in 2 Kings 4 seemed worth looking into. I’ve always read the story with puzzlement over the somewhat odd miracle-working of the resurrection of her son, and never paid that much attention to what it has to say about…
1 Kings 13:11-34 is one of the most strikingly sad and terrible stories in Scripture. It’s about two men of God—prophets—who make some “small” sins for apparently minor reasons and pay a heavy price. The story opens with a “certain old prophet,” name unknown, from Bethel, and a “man of God,” also a prophet, also nameless, from Judah, who goes…
One thing I have wrestled with a lot over the past few years is how does a Christian consider anxiety? On one hand, our experience tells us that it is utterly impossible not be anxious, and so for many of us, our instinctive interpretation of “be anxious for nothing” is something along the lines of “that can’t possibly actually mean…