Category: The Book of Daniel
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The Very Noisy Silent Years
I keep thinking the next post will (finally) get us into Daniel 7. But then I think of something else that I should talk about first. Today’s “something else” is a big picture view of chapters 7, 8, 9, and 10–12. I could just have said “chapters 7–12,” but that would deprive you of seeing…
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The Heart of Daniel
A nerdy friend once suggested I get a tattoo (wait, would this disqualify him from being nerdy?) that says “I heart Daniel,” and, from the trenches of commentary writing, I have to say Daniel is the man who gets most of my time these days. Though, let’s be clear: I’m not writing a commentary about…
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Apocalyptic Literature: What Is It?
That’s not one of my most creative titles for a blog post, but at least it’s clear. No luring in disinterested readers today… We’re trying to get a handle on the strange (to us) beast that is apocalyptic literature. It might be easiest to describe it by contrasting it with prophecy, a genre that’s all…
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Stories of Suffering – Old and New
My newsfeed these days is checkered with horrific stories of suffering people, many of them brothers and sisters in Christ, in the Middle East. And just when I can’t imagine how it could get any worse, the next story appears. It’s horrifying. It’s heartbreaking. It’s sobering. And it makes me catch myself when I want…
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Hitting the Rapids
All right. It’s time. We’ve been merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily making our way through the first half of Daniel, loving such well-told stories as the fiery furnace and the lions’ den. But the current changes when we arrive at chapter 7, and we’ll be paddling through some challenging waters from now until the end of…
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Daniel’s Other Half
I started warning you early about the second half of Daniel (and by “early” I mean within the first month of this blog’s life), and now that we’ve finally arrived, I’m reposting something I said way back then just to get things started… — I’m teaching Daniel to a group of urban ministry leaders on…
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Me, My Selfie, and I
Although this blog has only made it through Daniel 6, I’ve been commentary writing in Daniel 7 for weeks already. (Someone’s paying me to do that, while none of my five blog readers has sent me any money to get a new post up, already. You can see where my priorities are.) Daniel 7 is…
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I Am Not Ashamed…or am I?
Over the weekend, a friend posted a video from graduation ceremonies half a continent away from the Edge of Nowhere, and I was able to hear one of my former students sing “I Am Not Ashamed (of the Gospel).” By herself, she was every bit as good as the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir. I got chills…
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Legal Ease?
I spent the better part of December sequestered in a Seattle jury box while two feisty lawyers gave me and my fellow captives their best show. When they finally finished, we spent two more days locked in a deliberation room trying to figure out both what we had just witnessed and what had actually happened…
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And We’re Back (at least, for now…)
Once upon a time, I was blogging through the book of Daniel… Most recently, a phrase I use very loosely, we were working through Daniel 6. Then came a couple “fly-across-the-country” trips for work; a holiday of thanks; a two-week, out-of-town stint on a jury; a holiday of lights, family love, and more fly-across-the-country travel…
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