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We @TheCottage explore how the ancient people of the Bible to whom God was speaking understood the Scriptures to show us how God was speaking to them yet communicating to them revelation for all of us even today even if in their context. 

In this episode, we begin a three part series in Joel 1 exploring the coming judgment that affects the generations to come back on Joel's day. Does any of this apply to us today?

We are laying the foundation to discovering the riches hidden in the ancient Scriptures of God's people to learn God's way of doing and being in our daily lives. Stay tuned for our future episodes as we continue to discover more mysteries of the Bible in the sessions that follow.

We @TheCottage explore how the ancient people of the Bible to whom God was speaking understood the Scriptures to show us how God was speaking to them yet communicating to them revelation for all of us even today even if in their context. 

In this episode, we continue our Wilderness series exploring in a miniseries as another tributary the Hebrew term kavod which is often translated glory in most English Bibles in 1 Sam 4:21-22 as it related to the naming of Eli's grandson on the day of his family's demise and the ark going into exile into the land of the Philistines. 

In this episode, we explore Jeremiah 28 and Jeremiah's use of yokes in a showdown of prophet vs. prophet over the truth.

We are laying the foundation to discovering the riches hidden in the ancient Scriptures of God's people to learn God's way of doing and being in our daily lives. Stay tuned for our future episodes as we continue to discover more mysteries of the Bible in the sessions that follow.

We @TheCottage explore how the ancient people of the Bible to whom God was speaking understood the Scriptures to show us how God was speaking to them yet communicating to them revelation for all of us even today even if in their context. 

In this episode, we continue our Wilderness series exploring in a miniseries as another tributary the Hebrew term kavod which is often translated glory in most English Bibles in 1 Sam 4:21-22 as it related to the naming of Eli's grandson on the day of his family's demise and the ark going into exile into the land of the Philistines. 

In this 3rd of four mini-episodes, we explore God's later going into exile to Babylon to be with his people as the glory departed from Zion's temple to join his people in Babylon and the prophet Ezekiel. God goes the distance to be with his people in exile like Christ's coming and enduring the cross to restore us to a latter glory that outshines the former glories. God was exiled to the land of Philistia in Samuel's day. Again, he joins his people in Babylon. Jesus endures death itself. Yet, Isa 40:3's prophecy is a promise of God's returning with his people reuniting with them in exile to bring them home.

We are laying the foundation to discovering the riches hidden in the ancient Scriptures of God's people to learn God's way of doing and being in our daily lives. Stay tuned for our future episodes as we continue to discover more mysteries of the Bible in the sessions that follow.

We @TheCottage explore how the ancient people of the Bible to whom God was speaking understood the Scriptures to show us how God was speaking to them yet communicating to them revelation for all of us even today even if in their context. 

In this episode, we continue our Wilderness series exploring in a miniseries as another tributary the Hebrew term kavod which is often translated glory in most English Bibles in 1 Sam 4:21-22 as it related to the naming of Eli's grandson on the day of his family's demise and the ark going into exile into the land of the Philistines. 

In this 2nd of four mini-episodes, we explore the idea of the burden of ministry as a yoke of Christ available to all believers for Christ to guide us through our lives as we become in a partnership with Christ and with each other as one body to prepare us for our communion service.

We are laying the foundation to discovering the riches hidden in the ancient Scriptures of God's people to learn God's way of doing and being in our daily lives. Stay tuned for our future episodes as we continue to discover more mysteries of the Bible in the sessions that follow.

We @TheCottage explore how the ancient people of the Bible to whom God was speaking understood the Scriptures to show us how God was speaking to them yet communicating to them revelation for all of us even today even if in their context. 

In this episode, we continue our Wilderness series exploring in a miniseries as another tributary the Hebrew term kavod which is often translated glory in most English Bibles in 1 Sam 4:21-22 as it related to the naming of Eli's grandson on the day of his family's demise and the ark going into exile into the land of the Philistines.

In this 1st of four mini-episodes, we dig into the background to Samuel's rise as the Lord's prophet being the final judge before the beginning of Israel's monarchy in the midst of a famine in the land of God's Word in the the days of Eli.

We are laying the foundation to discovering the riches hidden in the ancient Scriptures of God's people to learn God's way of doing and being in our daily lives. Stay tuned for our future episodes as we continue to discover more mysteries of the Bible in the sessions that follow.

We @TheCottage explore how the ancient people of the Bible to whom God was speaking understood the Scriptures to show us how God was speaking to them yet communicating to them revelation for all of us even today even if in their context.

In this episode, we continue our series on The Water in the Wilderness exploring in a miniseries as a tributary, the Elijah narrative in 1 Kings chapters 17-19. In this 4th of four mini-episodes, we discover what Elijah hears as whispers in his darkness as a silver lining of God's grace shining through where Elijah finds himself flailing after previous great victories having reached his limits.

We are laying the foundation to discovering the riches hidden in the ancient Scriptures of God's people to learn God's way of doing and being in our daily lives. Stay tuned for our future episodes as we continue to discover more mysteries of the Bible in the sessions that follow.

We @TheCottage explore how the ancient people of the Bible to whom God was speaking understood the Scriptures to show us how God was speaking to them yet communicating to them revelation for all of us even today even if in their context. In this episode, we continue our series on The Water in the Wilderness exploring in a miniseries as a tributary, the Elijah narrative in 1 Kings chapters 17-19. In this 3rd of four mini-episodes, we discover what Elijah hears yet no one can see--the sound of the abundance of rain from an open heavens after 3.5 years of drought and famine had covered the land and God comes in the dark clouds!

We are laying the foundation to discovering the riches hidden in the ancient Scriptures of God's people to learn God's way of doing and being in our daily lives. Stay tuned for our future episodes as we continue to discover more mysteries of the Bible in the sessions that follow.

We @TheCottage explore how the ancient people of the Bible to whom God was speaking understood the Scriptures to show us how God was speaking to them yet communicating to them revelation for all of us even today even if in their context. In this episode, we continue our series on The Water in the Wilderness exploring in a miniseries as a tributary, the Elijah narrative in 1 Kings chapters 17-19. In this 2nd of four mini-episodes, we see Elijah confronting the prophets of Baal on Mt. Carmel in one of Elijah's most famous scenes in all the Bible in 1 Kings 18 as there's no sound from heaven until Elijah calls upon YHWH.

We are laying the foundation to discovering the riches hidden in the ancient Scriptures of God's people to learn God's way of doing and being in our daily lives. Stay tuned for our future episodes as we continue to discover more mysteries of the Bible in the sessions that follow.

We @TheCottage explore how the ancient people of the Bible to whom God was speaking understood the Scriptures to show us how God was speaking to them yet communicating to them revelation for all of us even today even if in their context. In this episode, we continue our series on The Water in the Wilderness exploring in a miniseries as a tributary, the Elijah narrative in 1 Kings chapters 17-19. In this first of four mini-episodes, we look at introducing the story with Elijah in this saga as he turns the water off (no rain like it was in Genesis 2 akin to a new creation) and begins a 3-and-a-half-year famine due to King Ahab's turning to other gods via his foreign wife Jezebel akin to what we discovered previously in the Hosea saga with his wife Gomer as a model for what God endures with Israel similarly tasking her deep in the wilderness to strip her down and return her to her first love.

We are laying the foundation to discovering the riches hidden in the ancient Scriptures of God's people to learn God's way of doing and being in our daily lives. Stay tuned for our future episodes as we continue to discover more mysteries of the Bible in the sessions that follow.

We @TheCottage explore how the ancient people of the Bible to whom God was speaking understood the Scriptures to show us how God was speaking to them yet communicating to them revelation for all of us even today even if in their context. In this episode, we continue our series on The Way in the Wilderness exploring Isa 40:3's command to Prepare. We recall the story from WWII of army private Desmond Doss and his sacrifice at Hacksaw Ridge against the Japanese to save some 75 soldiers without a fight to answer his cry of, "Just one more, Lord!" Are we making the sacrificial preparations for the Lord's coming in our midst even as we await the final consummation like this man did? We are laying the foundation to discovering the riches hidden in the ancient Scriptures of God's people to learn God's way of doing and being in our daily lives. Stay tuned for our future episodes as we continue to discover more mysteries of the Bible in the sessions that follow.