The Jacob Syndrome

And he said, “Surely I will go down to Sheol in mourning for my son.” So his father wept for him.  Genesis 37:35b  NASB Mourning – What happened to Jacob when he thought his son Joseph was dead?  By carefully examining this narrative in Genesis we discover a lot about psychological trauma, family dynamics, and unconscious…

Paradox

casting all your anxiety on Him, because He cares for you.  1 Peter 5:7  NASB Cares – What is a paradox?  We could rely on dictionary definitions like this one: “a seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well founded or true,” but what this really says is that a paradox is only an apparent problem.  The definition…

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But they will say, ‘It’s hopeless! For we are going to follow our own plans, and each of us will act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.’  Jeremiah 18:12 NASB It’s hopeless! – Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg’s book, The Particulars of Rapture: Reflections on Exodus, is a difficult read.  Just so we clear up the title, it is not about…

The Plea for Integration

 Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless His holy name.  Psalm 103:1 NASB Within– What is within you?  Maybe you’re not sure how to answer that question.  Let’s try it a different way.  When you dream, what things happen to you over and over?  Do you have dreams about being embarrassed?  Lost?  Threatened?  Or maybe you…

Bending the Word – Rewind

If a man takes his sister, a daughter of his father or a daughter of his mother, and sees her nakedness, and she sees his nakedness, it is a disgrace, and they shall be cut off in the sight of the children of their people. He has uncovered his sister’s nakedness, and he shall bear…

Bending the Word

If a man takes his sister, a daughter of his father or a daughter of his mother, and sees her nakedness, and she sees his nakedness, it is a disgrace, and they shall be cut off in the sight of the children of their people.  He has uncovered his sister’s nakedness, and he shall bear…