I’m writing a book about the Day of Atonement. Sounds exciting, I know.  A few years ago, The Bible Project did a year long walk through the Torah, the first five books of the Bible.  The word Torah means instruction, and the Torah is said to have

This morning, an image came into my mind as I was worshipping God. I saw people moving through this life, this linear, pale starter life that we live here on the earth, and every deed every word that they did or spoke was finding its place

“He is mindful that we are but dust.” Yet, He is making us in His Image. He is making us a Royal Priesthood, and a Helpmate for His only Son. What is this alchemy that God is up to? Do I really believe that He

The Creation story has two halves. In the first three days God, Elohim, essentially makes spaces for living things to be. On days 4-6 Elohim fills those spaces with living creatures. I use the Hebrew word for God here, because it is a plural word.

In Cultivate Well I talked about focusing on doing good, sowing something that would bear good fruit and give us something to share, and also about fighting the clutter in our own hearts so that we have space for the good works that God would

In Genesis 3 we see Adam and Eve fall, the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil is sometimes called a Tree of Testing. It was a test, but what was the lesson? And how were Adam and Eve to know the right answer? Well, it

There is a motif running through the Bible of a Garden – Paradise.  The Bible addresses the rat race that we humans set ourselves on trying to get into that Garden. We move from place to place, job to job, relationship to relationship, even church

This is a four part series in which I wish to address and open a line of reasoning around some things that I think are very misunderstood in our culture and in the church today. In this part I will address the idea of maleness/femaleness

It has been a long standing mantra of mine that for every sound principle in scripture there is a counter-weight. Proverbs says, “Do not stray to the left or to the right.” The path of Truth is very narrow and precise and leaning too strongly

If you can say it, you can pray it. 🙂 In John 11:41-42, at the tomb of Lazarus, Jesus begins to pray. He thanks God for hearing Him, and then says, “I know you always hear me, but for the sake of those standing here, that