Thematic Thread
The Pursuit of the Unfaithful
Divine love as initiative — God goes after the one who has left. Hosea and Gomer is not a peculiar episode in prophetic biography; it is God's own portrait of himself. Ruth is a redemption story, not a romance. The pursuit pattern is not softened by the New Testament but completed in the cross.
- 06 The Shekinah 25 min Presence Departing and Returning
- 11 Moses at Nebo 32 min The View from the Mountain
- 12 Hosea and Gomer 25 min The story of Hosea and Gomer is not a peculiar episode in prophetic biography — it is God's own portrait of himself, enacted in a marriage: the divine husband who gives everything, is forsaken for lesser lovers, responds to betrayal not with divorce but with pursuit, and re-betrothes the unfaithful wife with his own covenant attributes; the pursuit pattern is not softened by the New Testament but completed in it.
- 13 Ruth and Boaz 24 min Ruth is not primarily a love story — it is a redemption story structured around a legal obligation that required a person of standing to descend into the situation of the bereft and act from within it; Boaz fulfills the goel obligation not reluctantly but with excess, and in doing so enacts the pattern that the prophets would later call the character of God and the New Testament would call the Incarnation.
- 24 Hurt by the Church 26 min The institution's verdict on you and God's verdict on you are not the same verdict; Ezekiel 34 indicts bad shepherds before your experience gave you the words for it, and the Good Shepherd's knowledge of his own — continuous, direct, unmediated — is not revised by what any institution has done or failed to do.