133: Cornerstone 11

133: Cornerstone 11

For well over ten years I’ve been researching how Jesus healed history while He was healing both people and the landscape around them. And for all that time, I said to myself: ‘There has to be a word for this. I can’t be the first person who has noticed that Jesus is...
131: Cornerstone 9

131: Cornerstone 9

We’ve reached the pointy end of the Cornerstone series, so please check out the previous episodes, if you haven’t already done so, before listening to or reading this one. Without a thorough grounding in what a cornerstone signifies its appearance under different...
130: Cornerstone 8

130: Cornerstone 8

One of the signature features of a cornerstone is the presence of angels. There are fallen angelic forces that hang around thresholds—in fact, the Hebrew word for a defiled threshold encodes the name of one of them: Python. In contrast, holy angelic defenders...
129: Cornerstone 7

129: Cornerstone 7

Back in the days before the Hebrews had built the golden calf at the foot of Mount Sinai, Israelite men had the right to be priests in their own household. If some matter of intercession or sacrifice involved more than the immediate family, then the firstborn son as...
127: Cornerstone 5

127: Cornerstone 5

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...
126: Cornerstone 4

126: Cornerstone 4

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...