by Anne Hamilton | May 5, 2025 | cornerstone, Covenant, peace, Phinehas, Thresholds
In the last session, I spoke about the civil war that completely destroyed the tribal brotherhood in Israel during the days of the Judges. The nation never recovered. It was a huge weeping wound at the very core of the kingship—influencing both Saul’s and David’s...
by Anne Hamilton | May 4, 2025 | cornerstone, Covenant, Moses, Phinehas, Thresholds
Warning: abuse triggers. Scripture is chockful of stories about threshold covenants and therefore, implicitly if not explicitly, about cornerstones. It’s surprising how much of the historical record is given over to such events, especially in the early days of the...
by Anne Hamilton | Dec 23, 2024 | Abraham, Covenant, Leviathan, Moses, peace, Phinehas
When we constantly scrub up the behaviour of our faith heroes so that their actions almost always appear irreproachable, sooner or later we’re going to paint God as the villain. That’s inevitable when someone or something other than the Lord becomes an idol. We...
