Tami's Meandering Thoughts

“If a person sins and does what is forbidden in any of the Lord’s commands, even though he does not know it, he is guilty and will be held responsible. He is to bring to the priest as a guilt offering a ram from the flock, one without defect and of the proper value. In [...]

I know I told you that I would write about Love in Leviticus, but another week has flown by, and I have not sat down to do it. Then, as I was reading yesterday, this chapter hit me so hard, I decided I had to write about this. You have probably heard Psalm 42 read, [...]

“They built the altar of burnt offering of acacia wood, three cubits high; it was square, five cubits long and five cubits wide.”
Exodus 38:1
As you know (see previous entry), I am looking for ways that God shows his love in the Old Testament. This past week I finished reading Exodus and dug into Leviticus. And, [...]

“The LORD, the LORD, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty.”
Exodus 34:6-7
Last week, as Tim was preaching in Genesis 3, he pointed out that, although we usually [...]

Just a note for all of you who use our website (www.wobconline.com) to access this blog. As you notice, the format has changed. Amanda, who had graciously and wonderfully set up our old website, is in the process of updating it all. I am not sure of the format that it will end up with, [...]

“Likewise, teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live, not to be slanderers or addicted to much wine, but to teach what is good. Then they can train the younger women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled and pure, to be busy at home, to be kind, and [...]

Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” So God created man in his own image, in [...]

“But what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this defiles a person. For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander.”
Matthew 15:18-19
Today the weather has been CRAZY! This morning, as I waited in a drive-up line at the bank, a viscous wind broke off [...]

“During wheat harvest, Reuben went out into the fields and found some mandrake plants, which he brought to his mother Leah. Rachel said to Leah, ‘Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.’ But she said to her, “Wasn’t’ it enough that you took away my husband? Will you take my son’s mandrakes too?’ ‘Very [...]

“They shouted back, ‘No, not him! Give us Barabbas!’ Now Barabbas had taken part in a rebellion.”
John 18:40
Here we are, at the beginning of 2010, and many people have made some sort of resolution. I’ll admit, I gave up on resolutions long ago because I rarely kept them so they ended up just being a [...]