Spirituality For Ordinary People

"It was amazing to me that in this hard part of scriputre, there were things we could immediately apply."—Rachel SchmoyerEpisode 57 of Spirituality for Ordinary People features Rachel Schmoyer. Rachel has a website called "Read the Hard Parts" which focusses on looking at some of the most difficult passages in Scripture and looks to discover what truth we might glean.Rather than the usual interview format, Rachel and I do an essentially unplanned Bible Study on Malachi 1:1-5:1 The oracle of the word of the Lord to Israel through Malachi.2 “I have loved you,” says the Lord. But you say, “How have You loved us?” “Was not Esau Jacob’s brother?” declares the Lord. “Yet I have loved Jacob; 3 but I have hated Esau, and I have made his mountains a desolation and appointed his inheritance for the jackals of the wilderness.” 4 Though Edom says, “We have been beaten down, but we will return and build up the ruins”; thus says the Lord of hosts, “They may build, but I will tear down; and men will call them the wicked ter