Today I was reflecting on the imagery of gardens in the Bible. God began His conversation with us in a garden. A quiet, beautiful place where we could walk and talk with God.  During the Exodus, the Israelites wandered through the wilderness. A stark contrast to the

“Do not be deceived, God is not mocked. You will reap what you sow.” I think sometimes we get confused though. I think the devil convinces us that we are reaping, when we are really sowing. He tells us, “Grab that sweet juicy fruit! The good times,

I was listening to the Bible Project this morning. I’m in a study on Abraham. Tim Mackie was teaching on chapter 15 of Genesis. He highlights two sequences of dialogue between God and Abraham. In the first one, Genesis 15:1-6, God makes a Promise about “Reward.”

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