Tiglath-pileser (the dog)

Eight Reflections on Urbana 15

My family arrived home at midnight last night after an amazing five days in St. Louis at Urbana 15, a gathering of 16,000 students and leaders who are interested in missions,…
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I guess I’m in the right job

My father Richard Lamb is a physicist.  To be precise, a gamma-ray astrophysicist. What he does isn't rocket science, it's more complicated than that. He loved his job…
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“With this collar I thee own”

Tiglath-pileser, the dog, not the ancient Assyrian emperor (745-727 BC), sleeps in our bedroom with us.  Because his collar has dog tags (surprise!), we take off his collar at…
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Psalms 5: The stick (Psalm 1:4-6)

Psalm 1 provides both positive and negative motivation for delighting in the law of YHWH.  After describing the carrot (prosperity) that comes to the torah-obsessed person in verse…
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