bible - MandyGunter.com https://mandygunter.com Striving for biblical literacy and hope in a broken world. Tue, 02 Apr 2024 14:36:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 https://i0.wp.com/mandygunter.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/cropped-MG-logo.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 bible - MandyGunter.com https://mandygunter.com 32 32 227822906 Numbers- Where Justice and Mercy Balance the Scale https://mandygunter.com/numbers-where-justice-and-mercy-balance-the-scale/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=numbers-where-justice-and-mercy-balance-the-scale Tue, 02 Apr 2024 14:36:39 +0000 https://mandygunter.com/?p=539 Thus far, on our journey through the Old Testament, Numbers has been by far the hardest to prepare for. Leviticus is usually where my flesh wants to get choked up. The laws are so heavy and some are incredibly difficult to understand from my modern view of the world, and...

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]]> 539 Leviticus – God’s painting of His Holiness https://mandygunter.com/leviticus-gods-painting-of-his-holiness/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=leviticus-gods-painting-of-his-holiness Mon, 18 Mar 2024 18:31:31 +0000 https://mandygunter.com/?p=515 Instead of narrowing in on a specific law or passage in this book, let’s examine some lenses to use as we study the book as a whole.

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]]> 515 Broken Seashells and Shattered Reflections https://mandygunter.com/broken-seashells-and-shattered-reflections/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=broken-seashells-and-shattered-reflections https://mandygunter.com/broken-seashells-and-shattered-reflections/#comments Wed, 13 Mar 2024 15:00:19 +0000 https://mandygunter.com/?p=483 Brokenness. It’s a word I have carried in my chest for several years now. It’s a word I see when I look in the mirror and at the world around me. Sometimes it is all I can see. I close my eyes and imagine shattered pottery, the jagged edges slicing...

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]]> https://mandygunter.com/broken-seashells-and-shattered-reflections/feed/ 2 483 Genesis https://mandygunter.com/genesis/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=genesis https://mandygunter.com/genesis/#comments Wed, 06 Mar 2024 16:32:20 +0000 https://mandygunter.com/?p=463 God cuts the covenant with Abram Genesis is a fascinating book.  It is the first book of the Bible and covers the largest span of history of any of the books- almost 2,300 years.  Moses is often thought to be the author.  It opens with God’s account of creation, which...

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]]> https://mandygunter.com/genesis/feed/ 2 463 Walking Each Other Home https://mandygunter.com/walking-each-other-home/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=walking-each-other-home Wed, 07 Feb 2024 02:53:18 +0000 https://mandygunter.com/?p=193 As the calendar pages fall and the years seem to pass quicker, I visualize life as a journey. I have enough time under my belt now that I can see the hills and valleys behind me and know more await my arrival in the future. How is it that our...

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]]> 193 Old Testament Importance https://mandygunter.com/old-testament-importance/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=old-testament-importance Sat, 03 Feb 2024 19:08:44 +0000 https://mandygunter.com/?p=81 The Bible is divided into two primary sections- the Old Testament and the New Testament.  The New Testament details the life of Christ, the early church and letters written to it, and the promise of a world one day restored to perfection.  The modern church spends considerable time studying and...

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