The Deep End

Five for Fighting

Tomorrow will be the fifth anniversary of The Deep End. During the past five years I have enjoyed studying Scripture and writing posts based on the Truth of God’s Word. As always, He has been exceedingly gracious to allow me to continue. I pray and hope that what readers find here will be challenging, thought-provoking, comforting, and profitable, and that the Lord Jesus will be magnified and exalted. The Lord is certainly the Prince of Peace, but I have learned that He is also passionate and zealous. These things are not mutually contradictory, but the result is that – more often than we think – God deals in the reality of clashing perspectives and strong emotions. It’s one of the lesser-known facts of Christian theology that the God of peace sometimes works through violent conflict.

In honor of this anniversary (and in recognition that Jeopardy is now ripping off my blog for category clues!) I am posting the links to the category called Biblical Violence:

1. The God-Mastered Man
2. When God Condones Violence
3. Panicked Pressing
4. Frightening Words
5. The Grudge-Match of the Century: The Lion of God vs. Double-Wicked Cushan
6. Up for the Count
7. The One that Didn’t Get Away
8. The Raptor and the Captor
9. Righteous Jealousy
10. Eternal Destruction
11. Faithful Wounds
12. Faithful Wounds Part 2
13. Stand Your Ground
14. Breaching Reality
15. Are You Struggling?
16. Smiting the Gods
17. Evil Angels
18. Beware the Fight with the Flesh
19. Beware Falling Formations
20. Beware the Feeble Fortress
21. Beware the Flattened Fence
22. Beware the Fearful Force
23. Beware the Facial Fall
24. The Bold Pair in the Enemy’s Lair (Part 1)
25. The Bold Pair in the Enemy’s Lair (Part 2)
26. Beware the Flagging Finishers
27. Strange Weapons: The Prod, the Peg, and the Pitcher
a. The Prod (background) (Judges 3:31; 5:6)
b. The Prod (comparisons and conclusion)
c. The Peg (introduction and narrative) (Judges 4)
d. The Peg (illustrations) (Judges 4:18-23)
e. The Pitcher (factual summary) (Judges 6-7) *
f. The Pitcher (spiritual application)
28. More Strange Weapons: A Stone and a Bone
a. A Stone (narrative) (Judges 9)
b. A Stone (God’s Will Is Foundational) (Judges 9:50-56)
c. A Stone (God’s Will Is Functional)
d. A Bone (Singular and Surprising) (Judges 15:14-16)
e. A Bone (Simple, Silly, Serious, and Successful)*
29. A Final and Unforgettable Sight (Jeremiah 39)
30. Pierced and Buried (John 19:31-37)
31. Truth, Torture, and Trepidation (John 19:1-8)
32. A Less Lurid Account of the Crucifixion (John 19:16-18)
33. Canaanite Daylight Savings Time (Joshua 10)
34. Divide and Conquer (Joshua 11)
35. Arrayed, Dismayed, and Afraid (I Samuel 17)
36. Fall in All (II Samuel 1-2)
37. Joshua: Courage, Carnage, and Conquest
38. A Do-Over Against Ai (Joshua 8)
39. Prophecy under Duress (Psalm 22:9-31)
40. Bloodthirsty (Proverbs 29:10)

*most-read post in category