Comments on: Pharaoh’s pride & Jesus’ call of humilty

By: Lionel Woods

Lionel Woods — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:47:17 +0000

I think we missed by mistake )

By: Steve Scott

Steve Scott — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:00:12 +0000

I did not receive the Jan 24 installment. Did I miss something, or was none written? Thanks.

By: chas pike

chas pike — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 22:41:44 +0000

certainly, joy. bar in the hebrew language means “son of”, and amram was mo’s pop.

By: Joy

Joy — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 22:31:50 +0000

Chas, I just heard the breeze from something traveling fast over my head. Forgive my being stuck in my traditions so deep I can’t see over. I understood that Mo is Moses, but Mr. Bar-amram I am not acquainted with. Please enlighten.

By: chas pike

chas pike — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 19:05:01 +0000

sorry. i meant: mr. bar-amram

By: Jim Lege

Jim Lege — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 18:48:23 +0000

“Mo?” God tells “mo, cool?” You reading from the Message or the Urban Devotional Bible, sir?

By: chas pike

chas pike — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:54:38 +0000

i am frustrated for moses. just as jonah knew that God would relent and forgive the ninevahites (ninehahsians??) and that his whole journey over there would be one of futility, here we have poor mo. YHVH takes him aside and scares the crap out of him with snakes, makes him circumsize himself and his son, tries to kill him on the road, and that is the easy part. He tells mo what He is gonna do. all of this nasty stuff. upping the ante after each one. after each one sending mo in. then he tells mo, cool, huh? but wait, i am not done-I am gonna harden pharaoh’s heart and he will not let you go, then you go in again with this…upping the ante, the next act more horrible than the last. then the plague, then the animals are killed, but “I will harden his heart” up to the point that he tells mo, ” wait, get this, then I will kill all of the first born in the country!, then I will let him let you go!”. wow! each time the ante upped, mo must have felt “this is it”, but it gets worse and worse, and then so many are gonna die. poor mo. stuttering mo, the happy, carefree shepherd, becomes the front man for mass murder, and then chaperone for the trip from h…eaven.
what a tough gig. yet, he did it!

By: Lionel Woods

Lionel Woods — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:21:41 +0000

Humility is the hardest pill to swallow. Sometimes I am okay and sometimes I am not. However whenever I read or reflect on Christ, then I am moved to humility at such a great king who exemplified humility. He says in Matthew 11 “for I am meek…” God is meek but sometimes I find myself very prideful and sometimes that pride is in my religious knowledge (

I once read that many of the plagues were an attack on the gods of egypt. The nile, the gnats, frogs and so forth were all symbolys of deities.