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As I mentioned a few months ago, I really like Wordle. It takes your text and makes a typographic arrangement. There are a lot of controls one may use to change the layout. I worked awhile until I achieved “God heard Rahab” in red. This Wordle is based on my last post, “Deliverance in a [...]

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A Character Study of Rahab
Rahab is a notorious stereotype that God uses in a positive role. Putting his often brutal edge on the matter, Luther calls Rahab a whore (Hure) in his German translation. Perhaps in part, as a matter of confidentiality for her clients, she did not hand over the Hebrew spies to the [...]

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Character Study of Achan
Achan is a man who is not allowed to enjoy what perhaps could be considered the one brief moment of integrity we glimpse of his life. In such he is an arresting study in the resolve of a holy God to have a holy people.
Jericho, the first city inside the Promised Land, [...]

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I have had the new ESV (English Standard Version) Study Bible pre-ordered for months. In fact, I’ve had one ordered for myself and another one ordered for Susan. And we have to wait another two months before it comes out. Good grief!I think it’s going to be worth the wait though. The ship date is [...]

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Susan and I were on vacation last week at Lake Lure, NC. Wednesday, I was inside reading Hood and Scarlet by Stephen Lawhead most of the day. Late in the afternoon, while getting ready to go canoeing on the lake, I asked Susan if she heard a helicopter. She said she’d been hearing it [...]

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