Don’t join the book burners. Don’t think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, Speech at Dartmouth College, June 14, 1953
Camille on August 1st, 2007 | File Under Read, Speak, Think | No Comments -A dear friend recommended a new Bible story book. And we love it! Lloyd-Jones points every story back to Christ. I’m eager to read all the way through in a very left-brained way, but my dear preschooler is stuck on David and Goliath. So we read it. Over and over and over and over. I finally realize that maybe I need to hear the story over and over, and I read it listening very close to the message.
So we decided to really play out the story. First, we drew a 9′9″ Goliath on our blank newsprint.
He was very, very tall. And today we laid him on the stairs to throw things at him. Now, a paper Goliath doesn’t have much fortitude against toddlers and terriers. He was quickly sliced in two.
But this Goliath didn’t stand a chance against our David’s water sling shot, and we made sure of it.
We sang the song too. “But five little stones he took!”
“Up in the air. . . .”
“And the giant came tumblin’ down!”
And we sliced off his head with his own sword shouting, “The battle is the Lord’s!”
We had to switch roles too. Isaac was Goliath and Mommy was a “girl David.”
I’ll let Phil Yancey do the talking:
Levitical laws guarded against contagion: contact with a sick person, a Gentile, a corpse, certain kind of animals, or even mildew and mold would contaminate a person. Jesus reversed: rather than becoming contaminated, he made the other person whole. The pitiful woman with the flow of blood did not shame Jesus and make him unclean; she went away whole. The twelve-year-old dead girl did not contaminate Jesus; she was resurrected.
cklewis on August 1st, 2007 | File Under Grace | No Comments -I sense in Jesus’ approach a fulfillment, not an abolition, of the Old Testament laws. God had ‘hallowed’ creation by separating the sacred from the proface, the clean from the unclean. Jesus did not cancel out the hallowing principle, rather he changed its source. We ourselves can be agents of God’s holiness, for God now dwells within us. In the midst of an unclean world we can stride, as Jesus did, seeking ways to be a source of holiness.
