Posts Tagged ‘Ezekiel’
Hope for all Creation: Ezekiel 47
As part of our chapel series on Hope for all creation, I gave the following short reflection on Ezekiel 47:1-12. While I have grown to love the book of Ezekiel, I often find it strange. And this passage, despite the beautiful image of life-giving water that it presents, is no exception. It is filled with…
Read MoreWorse than the nations around you
Ezekiel 5:6-7 says that Israel has been worse than the surrounding nations. Such an accusation seems strange, as it doesn’t seem merely to say that Israel was worse in not obeying the special laws that God gave them, but instead that Israel was objectively worse than those around them. How is this possible? First, Ezekiel…
Read MoreApplying Ezekiel to today
We’ve started a study on Ezekiel. The stories in Ezekiel are fascinating and peculiar, and so it is a joy for me to talk about what is going on in the text. However, the strange-ness of the text makes it difficult to see how the text might apply to our lives. Going out and being…
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