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Wright’s Old Testament summaries are definitely a mouthful. If you’re familiar with his ideas you can read and skim, if you are not you would need to read very slowly and pause frequently to process his ideas. He does not hold back on using academic language or assuming the reader is engage in Bible discourse.

Part I Review: 2 of 5 stars. If you’re interested in biology and brain structure, this is a great book. But if you aren’t, it feels like a sea of research with very little practical advice. I also found much of it unsurprising. I skipped pages because just I don’t need this much evidence to know that men can have anxiety/depression or that couples who share household work tend to have better relationships.

So far the book is very much on biology and brain structure. Which honestly is not all that interesting to people outside of STEM.

Today’s Passage: John 4:21-38

Chapter 9-11 felt a little slow compared to the earlier chapters but I did like this quote on spiritual warfare “Hear me. It is folly to think of avoiding an invisible enemy by an amount of creeping and skulking. If these creatures mean to bring us to battle, be sure they will succeed” ( p. 128-129).

I would have been okay if chapter 17 was omitted.

This month Scripture focus: John 4:4-26
“Jesus talks to a Samaritan Woman”

Jesus and John the Baptizer
Read: John 3:22-4:3

John 1:19-3:21

Lost my morning discipline last week and even sort of rushed through it this morning. Tomorrow is a new week. Might not off Perfected my Lent goals, but just a reminder of the perfection of Jesus and how much I need the cross.