Daniel Haas

Month: July 2011

  • If God had a face

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    Joan Osborne asks the tough question: “If God had a face, what would it look like?” Well Moses wasn’t allowed to see it. Can you stand seeing all of God’s reality?

  • Where do you want to be buried?

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    There is all kinds of factors that determine where you want to live: school, career, family, they all bring us to different places. Life is mobility and always has been – Jacob took his entire tribe to foreign Egypt. When it was time for him to die Jacob commanded his sons, “Now that I am…

  • Macho Man

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    The Village People got it right: “He’s a special person in anybody’s land.” Jacob blessing his grandsons does the unexpected: He gives the higher blessing to the lesser child. God’s people never conform with societal values. If you think certain qualities like gender or age make one person better than another, think again.

  • We are shepherds

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    No, not cool cowboys, more like Gypsies: Would you want nomads like that party in your royal palace? Well Pharaoh didn’t. Egyptians thought that the wandering shepherds from the east were inferior and did not like to mix with them. Joseph wanted to tell the king that his brothers were shepherds so the king would…

  • We are family

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    Ever planned a big family event? It is crazy important to assign everyone the right spot. Not only at the tables but also in written invitations, announcements and such. Now when the Jewish people where in exile in Babylon they had pretty much the same dilemma: Who belongs and what is their rightful place among…