Zephaniah 3 – Sea Change, Key Change

Today’s Chocolate: Endangered Species Dark Chocolate with Sea Salt & Almonds Today’s Passage: Zephaniah 3 Here’s the third and final chapter of Zephaniah, and here’s a turning point right in the middle of it. Or, perhaps more accurately, here’s a light at the end of the Zephaniah tunnel. Here’s a spatial metaphor for the linear development of […]

Zephaniah 2 – Parse Ye the Day of the Lord

God is not a man that He should change His mind, but we’re not God. I’ve read through the Bible more than once, and each time I come around to a passage, I’ve grown as a person, I’ve learned new things, I’ve come to a different place that gives me a new perspective on it. If you’ve been reading the Bible for awhile, you’ve likely had the same experience. And sometimes God shows us we’ve been wrong about something. Our views change, we reject old opinions, and hopefully our new opinions jibe more consistently with the text and the universe as they are. Here on Chocolate Book, we approach the Bible heuristically.