Holy Thunder
When we hear the word “holy ”, what images pop into our heads? Do we think of a stereotypical stuffy church lad y wearing conserv ative dress and judging you for your music tastes? Do we think of an angry street preacher calling fire down on his enemies who happen to be everyone with in earshot of his diatribe ? Is it a building? Is it a book? Our thoughts and images about these concepts that are central to the story of Scripture are important . T hey can either be a help or hindrance to drawing closer to God. The above images will probably c ause us to run far away from Him. However, the word that translates to holy in English is the Hebrew word “ K adosh ” , meaning “otherness” or “set apartness ”. It is not a word that means moral perfection or religiosity as we tend to think it does . God is morally perfect but that’s not the prima r...