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Thanks to everyone who has been reading this blog.  It has turned out to be a lot more involving than I first had thought. I trust you are letting God speak through Ezekiel to in- and trans-form your life. I will be taking a break over the Christmas holidays. Expect Ezekiel 18:1ff. to come online [...]

Solidity, indeed, becomes the pen Of him that writeth things divine to men: But must I needs want solidness, because By metaphors I speak?  Were not God’s laws, His gospel laws, in olden time held forth By types, shadows, and metaphors? — John Bunyan (Pilgrim’s Progress) Ezekiel 17 is difficult to understand—ironic really, since Ezekiel [...]

For to be humbly ashamed is to be plunged in the cleansing bath of the truth. — George MacDonald (Unspoken Sermons) The Western world is trying to eradicate shame. Shame has become little more than the enemy that holds us back from living up to our true potential. Some anthropologists have made the distinction between [...]