In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. God said let there be light and there was light. God separated the light from the darkness. The light He
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
“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
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
There are a lot of voices in our society telling us to push, be more, be better. Achievement is what gives our lives value and meaning. But that is not
“There is a private place reserved for the lovers of God, where they sit near Him and receive the revelation secrets of His promises.” Psalm 25:14 TPT In Ezekiel’s vision of the cherubim that surround God he describes “something like human hands under the wings of
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
In Dichotomy Do, Dichotomy Don’t I discussed how in Genesis God in the act of Creating the world separated many things. Some of those things are completely removed from the final image we see in Revelation, they are separated out and allowed to remain during
The first pages of Genesis set up several dichotomies. Heaven and earth, land and sea, day and night, Male and Female, Animal and Human. Sometimes these pairs are brought together in a kind of Marriage. Male and Female, obviously. Eden is a kind of marriage of
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
In Genesis 3 we see God set for Adam and Eve a test. A test of how well, and how committed they are to attending to God’s voice. Will they veer off and follow another voice, or will they remain steadfast to the Voice that
This is the second in a four part series. In the first part I talked about the idea of maleness/femaleness and what God may have intended by that. In this part I will discuss what the Image of God means and how we maybe do
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