Do not be conquered by evil, but conquer evil with good. -Romans 12:21 Another verse to add to the “Julie always thought of this wrong” pile! 🙂 The context really lends itself to thinking the “evil” here means “evil people,” and surely that is one valid meaning, but… life has taught me there’s a lot more evil to overcome within…
I am doing a terrible job of blogging my reading. The biggest thing that struck me this week, though, was as I was reading through the book of Jonah: God is gracious. The men of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because they repented at Jonah’s proclamation; and look–something greater than Jonah is…
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…