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
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
“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.
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
People play hacky sack with a spirit of inclusion and cooperation. The point is to keep the ball up together by passing it around the group. Corporate prayer should have
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
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
Cease striving and know that I AM God. This verse has been spoken over me for most of my life. At one point it became my mission to help others hear these words. I laugh at myself when I think back, because I was striving to
A paraplegic can have a rich full life. There may be some things that are always out of reach, and often their lifespans are shorter than other peoples, but a triumphant spirit can learn to work around many things. And the number of days often
In my prior post about Proverbs, I said that it was a frame narrative of God’s interaction with humanity, and that the middle chapters 10-29 were like gleanings, little seeds of wisdom, that the Holy Spirit drops in our path for us to find. In this
I’ve always loved gardens and green spaces. When I was in college, I would periodically take a day and drive up into the mountains, and sit in the woods, preferably by a stream and listen to the sounds of nature and let the green, and