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    • Haggai intro
    • Zechariah intro
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    • Advent 2020
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    • Easter
    • New Year
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    • An eye for an eye (lex talionis)
    • Can a righteous person save a city?
    • Child sacrifice and a loving God
    • Discerning true prophecy from false
    • Destruction of the Amalekites
    • Disasters and God’s judgment
    • Does God change His mind?
    • God’s justice in this world
    • Gospels
    • Evaluating biblical characters
    • Hardening of Pharaoh’s heart
    • How did David meet Saul?
    • Intergenerational punishment
    • Jephthah’s vow
    • Jonah and historicity
    • Jesus the Nazarene? (Matt 2:23)
    • Justice and forgiveness
    • Light and God’s salvation plan in Isaiah
    • Melchizedek’s significance
    • Messianic prophecies
    • Natural or supernatural event?
    • Numbers leaving Egypt
    • Passover lamb’s bones
    • Prophecy and multiple fulfilments
    • Prosperity gospel
    • Racial purity in Ezra 9?
    • Reading OT Law
    • Reckoning Abraham righteousness (Gen 15:6)
    • Significance of genealogies
    • The art of telling a story
    • Un-chosen: Is God unfair?
    • Were the exiles racist?
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  • Bible reading notes,  Jeremiah,  Jeremiah 26-45

    What God’s perseverance says about Him (Jer 36:20-32)

    Jer 36:20-32 In an earlier post I mentioned that my Dad taught me English in my teenage years. Day after day, he would come into my room and ask if we were studying tonight and if I said ‘not tonight’,…

    By Csilla Saysell August 25, 2023
  • Bible reading notes,  Jeremiah,  Jeremiah 26-45

    What is the purpose of God’s Word? (Jer 36:1-19)

    Jer 36:1-19 A few years ago, there was an initiative in my church to read through the Bible in one year. The plan involved reading several chapters each weekday (weekends allowed for catch-up). Afterwards, many commented on the way reading…

    By Csilla Saysell August 22, 2023
  • Bible reading notes,  Jeremiah,  Jeremiah 26-45

    How to choose who we listen to (Jeremiah 35)

    Jer 35:1-19 I recently heard an interview with a young woman who in her teenage years felt uncomfortable being a girl (abuse was a contributing factor). Feeling lonely, she turned to social media and discovered that she could become a…

    By Csilla Saysell August 18, 2023
  • Bible reading notes,  Jeremiah,  Jeremiah 26-45

    How can lasting change happen? (Jeremiah 34)

    Jer 34:1-22 A Christian woman I know was looking after her ailing mother who was extremely controlling and tried to arrange her daughter’s life for her. While the daughter felt that her mother needed her, she could not cope with…

    By Csilla Saysell August 15, 2023
  • Bible reading notes,  Jeremiah,  Jeremiah 26-45

    When God responds to our anxieties (Jer 33:14-26)

    Jer 33:14-26 A year before I went to Israel on a gap year, I moved out of the room I shared with my brother into the boxroom. Although it was smaller and darker, I loved arranging the furniture and decorating…

    By Csilla Saysell August 11, 2023
  • Bible reading notes,  Jeremiah,  Jeremiah 26-45

    Making sense of God’s anger and love (Jer 33:1-13)

    Jer 33:1-13 A question hard to fathom for our human mind is the interplay between God’s love and judgment, His holiness that cannot tolerate sin and yet His faithfulness to sinful people. Whenever we try to resolve this tension in…

    By Csilla Saysell August 8, 2023
  • Bible reading notes,  Jeremiah,  Jeremiah 26-45

    How to tackle a crisis of faith (Jer 32:16-44)

    Jer 32:16-44 The NT mentions the shield of faith that can quench the flaming arrows of the evil one (Eph 6:16). Roman shields that Paul may have had in mind were tall, rectangular and could hide the body from shoulder…

    By Csilla Saysell August 4, 2023
  • Bible reading notes,  Jeremiah,  Jeremiah 26-45

    How to become people of hope (Jer 32:1-15)

    Jer 32:1-15 When the Covid-19 pandemic started, many were anxious in the face of uncertainty. Then, as hundreds of thousands were dying under terrible conditions overseas, and the newspapers were reporting the personal tragedies behind the numbers, nervousness turned to…

    By Csilla Saysell August 1, 2023
  • Bible reading notes,  Jeremiah,  Jeremiah 26-45,  Prophecy and multiple fulfilments,  Topical

    How is the new covenant fulfilled? (Jer 31:31-40)

    Jer 31:31-40 When we read Old Testament prophecies that relate to the future, we sometimes wonder how these are fulfilled. We understand that prophecies may have more than one fulfilment, but our application of this principle can be quite haphazard…

    By Csilla Saysell July 28, 2023
  • Bible reading notes,  Jeremiah,  Jeremiah 26-45

    God’s solution to the urge to sin (Jer 31:27-40)

    Jer 31:27-40 How can lasting change happen? How can we avoid repeating the mistakes of the past? If we do not buckle up in the car and then fly through the windshield in an accident, we are likely to remember…

    By Csilla Saysell July 25, 2023
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Hi, I’m Csilla!

Labradorite is a gemstone that, like Scripture to some, looks grey and lifeless until the light is diffracted from its internal layers to show a beautiful iridescence. As an Old Testament scholar, I write to help draw out Scripture’s colours by sharing practical insights and a deeper knowledge of God’s Word.

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