6
Nov
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“I will make you into a threshing-sledge, new, with sharp, pointed teeth, to thresh the mountains and crush them to dust, to reduce the hills to chaff.”
When do you know when biblical text is literal or metaphoric? We look at how to understand biblical metaphors and idioms with this week’s haftarah in Isaiah 40 and 41.
14
Aug
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“but those who hope in YHWH will renew their strength, they will soar aloft as with eagles’ wings; when they are running they won’t grow weary, when they are walking they won’t get tired.” Isaiah 40:31
We have all suffered loss in our lives. Where was God when it happened? In this week’s haftarah, Isaiah sends a message to those who suffered in his day that is just as applicable to those of us who suffer today: A message of hope and that there is someone in control.