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Hi everyone, I’m up in Terrace Bay this week speaking at my friend’s church.  I’ll resume the normal Ezekiel posts next week. Thanks for reading. Steve.

The gods and goddesses who lived therein, who had caused the flood and the downpour, whose visage had become sad, I raised up out of their miserable condition; I had their dusty trains polished; I cleaned their dirty garments; and I caused them to dwell in their holy places forever. — from Asarhaddon, episode 32 [...]

A holy people will by their lives transform mundane things into beautiful and acceptable offerings to God. — R. K. Harrison (Leviticus) If you want to understand what Ezekiel’s temple looked like, you need to find a good reference work and see how it is physically laid out. The text of Ezekiel gets so muddy [...]

To worship is to adore someone infinitely greater than we, and therefore to have our sights raised above ourselves. To worship is to be oriented away from ourselves. — Victor Shepherd (Seasons of Grace) The travelogue is interrupted. It’s as if the tour guide (the man who shone like bronze) paused in the tour and started [...]