Luke opens up his gospel describing Zechariah and his wife Elizabeth. His descriptions are enveloped with Old Testament imagery. Like Abram and Sarai, they were both advanced in years and…
BACKGROUND: The son of God, the son of man Then God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish…
If we were suddenly in a world where unicorns and fairies were common, they would in short order lose their novelty as we went about our every day life. We…
A theme of the scripture is that “everyman did what was right in his own eyes” and this was the promise of the serpent in the garden of Eden –…
There is a song I relate to, that exposes me for who I am. It has these lines in it . . . Behold the man upon a cross, My…
We don’t become like Christ by imitating Him. We are transformed into the image of Jesus as we behold Him. We behold Jesus, because He holds us in His embrace.
We are told to be independent and be our own person, but it is in submission that we truly become more than who we are.
We become monsters when we lean on our understanding; it is in the vulnerability of being broken through the fear of the Lord that we are healed.
We are very good at creating consistent narratives that fit our experiences of the world, but we are not very good at interpreting the world.
People don’t want a God of Love, we want a god of affirmation.
