Present in our Exile
When we experience sorrow, grief or disappointment, it’s easy to believe God has abandoned us. The Babylonian Exile was that kind of experience for God’s people. God allowed the Babylonians to take his people as slaves in a foreign land (the undoing of the...
Empty Religion
When God gives Old Testament Israel his laws, he builds in a way of getting forgiveness. Because God is gracious and patient, he allows people who make mistakes to be made right. Yet we can abuse God’s grace. When we take God’s forgiveness as a licence to...
God is Glorified in Our Weakness
Intuitively, we think that if God is a powerful God, then his people should also be powerful. But if we look at God’s people in the Bible, we often see God using people who are anything but powerful. God is glorified in our weakness. It is precisely because we...
The Law in the New Testament
Christians often wonder what to make of the Old Testament laws in our New Testament era. Old Testament Israel had lots of rules that Christians don’t follow today. So are we being unfaithful? How do we understand the Old Testament Law in the New Testament? Our...
Freedom From Spiritual Slavery
When we look at the Exodus story, it likely seems obvious that God is liberating his people from physical slavery. What isn’t as obvious to us is that God is working to bring his people freedom from spiritual slavery as well. The Israelites had been slaves for...Follow Us
When we welcome Jesus as the fulfillment of our hopes, rather than God's hopes, we may find ourselves deeply disappointed when God acts in the world. https://youtu.be/DDHX2w236K8
Exile is a metaphor for our experience of disappointment and suffering. But in the Biblical exile, we see that God is present with his people in their suffering.
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