God’s first call created all things. God’s second call was to a married couple, Abram and Sarai, an aged man and woman struggling with infertility. Through them God created
We Confess God is Our Portion
We Confess Our Disobedience
Dismiss it as primitive fiction if you like, but there’s real-world genius at work in the story of Adam and Eve. Fundamentally, it’s a story about what it means to be human. This first couple was created by
More Than a Dream
Out of the deep ocean of his vocabulary, “dream” is the word that’ll be quoted repeatedly. Yet, the substance of his “dream” is often co-opted by political partisans to disguise greed and diluted by the church to camouflage moral cowardice.
Beginning
God has manifested God’s self among us in the birth of Jesus, now we are invited to be newly, highly aware of God manifesting God’s self. So let’s begin at the beginning, with Genesis and creation
Settled
The Bible doesn’t give us a sense of Joseph’s interior journey to this moment. We just know in that moment he directed his pain to use his power for restoration and not a recitation of injuries. For Joseph, the matter was settled.
Unideal
The Bible treats us to a story of a woman with faith-agency. Faith-agency is the perfect balance between weekend praying and weekday doing.
Family
Next time someone asks you how’s your family doing, don’t say, fine. Say, …ripe for reversal!
Climbing Higher
In this current climate when our “freedom” is so tested, the spiritual and Biblical passage remind us of God’s faithfulness to our freedom now and future generations.
Old
Celebrate your advanced age. And let your later years of faith be greater than your former years. Let your faith be old as in mature, seasoned, persuaded and abiding.
Wrestle
What is amazing about God and God’s approach to wrestling with us is God is never trying to contort us into something other than ourselves.