A Blog from David Crump
For the rest of this month, Cascade is offering my new book, Hidden Holiness: Unwrapping the Gift of God’s Presence, at a 40% discount!
Order you copy, or some additional copies for friends, neighbors, and total strangers, today.
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Thanks a bunch. I pray the Lord blesses you as you read about and experience his majesty and unspeakable holiness.
Drop Site News has a new story covering the horrendous details of Israel’s starvation strategy for Gaza. Here is an excerpt:
GAZA CITY—Israel’s war of extermination in Gaza continues to plunge to new depths of horror. Starving Palestinians have begun to collapse in the streets and die of hunger as a result of the siege. Those who try to get food are gunned down in ever deadlier aid massacres. The Israeli military issues frequent mass expulsion orders and further expands its ground operations, slicing up the enclave and forcibly displacing Palestinians into more concentrated zones. All the while, the relentless aerial assault and ground attacks persist.
Over the past five days alone, more than 550 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, according to ministry of health figures. The confirmed death toll since the beginning of the war crossed 59,000 on Monday in what is widely acknowledged to be a vast undercount. Over the past two months, more than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed as they are forced to seek aid in militarized zones in a system mostly overseen by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a shadowy U.S.- and Israeli-backed group.
Read the entire, gruesome story here.
Preorder from the publisher now; available in September.
Read what a few friends have written about Hidden Holiness.
“This book offers a rich account of the nature of holiness with regard to God and to us. Along the way Crump undoes some common misapprehensions, shaking us out of our complacency about what it means for God to be holy, and challenging us to rethink what we mean by holy living in relationship with the Holy One.” Suzanne McDonald, professor of systematic and historical theology, Western Theological Seminary.
“God is hidden and revealed. Threatening but attractive. Wholly Other, yet eager for relationship. The holiness of God properly understood, says Crump, compels us toward personal consecration and neighborly kindness. This small book asks a big question: do we dare abandon the comfortable gods of our imagination to bow before a Dangerous Redeemer?” Bruce N. Fisk, retired professor of New Testament, Westmont College and senior research fellow, Network of Evangelicals for the Middle East
Hidden Holiness is available from the publisher as well as from Amazon.
I pray the book will bless every reader and encourage God’s people to live lives of daily adoration.
Mouin Rabbani is a Dutch-Palestinian Middle East analyst and an expert in the Arab-Israeli conflict and Palestinian affairs. He is senior fellow at the Middle East Council on Global Affairs and a fellow at the Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies and at Democracy for the Arab World Now. Mouin has served with the UN, the International Crisis Group, and Al-Haq. He is a co-editor of Jadaliyya, managing editor of the Journal of Peacebuilding and Development, and contributing editor of Middle East Report. He is insightful, articulate, informed, and remarkably irenic.
Be sure to catch Mouin’s interview with me at the Christian Forum on Israel-Palestine this Thursday!
