When God sent angels to lead Lot and his family out of Sodom before sending judgment on the city, the angels told them to hurry and not look back, but
The Bible is fractal. It works on the micro level, and the macro level. It contains truths and history in the countless moments of Passover that believers experience day by
As a child I would sometimes confuse zucchini and cucumber. They kind of look similar if you don’t note the fine details. But they are very different. The way
In my last post I said that Genesis 1 reveals God’s mission to establish an orderly and beautiful world where everything is blessed and thriving governed by humans who are
In the post “Purpose” that I did back in August, I talked a little bit about how Genesis 1 is God’s mission statement. In this post I want to
In an earlier blog I said, “Prayer is how we approach God.” Well, what you believe about God often determines how you approach. People tend to think that prayer is asking God for things. And to be fair in the old Shakespearean English “I
In Genesis 2 God plants the garden of Eden and puts in it trees that are “pleasing to the eye and good for food.” In Genesis 3 after talking with the serpent, Eve looks at the forbidden tree and “sees” that it is “pleasing to
Let’s say that the tithe tests how basic you are, how reactive you are to material concerns. This next test asks, “how acidic are you?” What is your threshold for fire? The test is Jesus’ question in the garden of Gethsemane the night He was
A litmus test measures the ph of a solution. You dip a paper strip into the solution and depending on the color the strip turns you know how acidic or alkaline the solution is. There are two instructions in scripture that I think act as a
In my last post, I pointed out that Jesus answered the question the expert at the Law asked with The Parable of the Good Samaritan. He did not offer an answer to the unspoken question of “How do I love God?” He answered the question
“Hear O Israel! The Lord Our God is One. Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.” In Luke 10 Jesus has a conversation with an “expert in the Law.” The lawyer rightly identifies
Prayer is the way we approach God. Our eagerness to draw near is a measure of how we are doing with the first Rule: Love the Lord your God with all your heart. Jesus taught on how to pray and what prayer should and should
