Who is on your TOP 5 list of people you’d like to grab a beer with and chat? Rahab the prostitute is on my TOP 5 list! And Joshua the son of Nun sent two men secretly from Shittim as spies, saying, “Go, view the land, especially Jericho.” And they went and came into the […]
I was imaginatively inhabiting Paul’s letters to the people in Colossae this morning. Philemon lived in Colossae! So when you imaginatively immerse yourself in Paul’s letter to Colossae you must also diligently envisage the rigors and jubilation of Philemon’s relationship with Paul and Onesimus! Moreover, the Laodicea community was 20km down the road from Colossae, […]
Here’s the deal. God made the world, and then we said, “We’ll take it from here!” Things got bad. Shockingly, God didn’t give us the silent treatment. He mercifully gave us His Word! So we decided to become scholars of God’s Word. Not so much practitioners, but definitely scholars. We accumulated religious information, and we […]
Here’s a quotation from our friend Eugene about feelings… “My feelings are important for many things. They are essential and valuable. They keep me aware of much that is true and real. But they tell me next to nothing about God or my relation to God. My security comes from who God is, not from […]
I ran across this small batch of quotations from our good buddy Eugene this morning. I now share them with you bloggy-blog readers, and I exhort and encourage you to mull them over for a minimum of 7 seconds 7 reps. “The assumption of spirituality is that always God is doing something before I know […]
Almost everyone I’ve crossed paths with in the past month has revealed in some way their desperate need for the substance and sentiment of the following quotation: “And yet I decide, every day, to set aside what I can do best and attempt what I do very clumsily–open myself to the frustrations and failures of […]
The most famous, influential, important person in history. We didn’t even know He had arrived. We didn’t know He had arrived because the announcement was made by a deranged vagabond, and His arrival was in hicksville. Moreover, beyond the broadcasts of the deranged vagabond, the only other form of announcement came via astrology. This announcement […]
I overheard The Boss tell Moses, “I’m sending you to Pharaoh to bring My people out of Egypt.” Moses told The Boss that he felt insufficient and completely unqualified for the job. The Boss told Moses, “This assignment has nothing to do with your ‘sufficiency’, or ‘your qualifications’? Do you think I’m in the market […]
Years ago I arranged the content below in an effort to help some people repair a broken relationship. It didn’t work. The people decided not to repent and reconcile, and they haven’t spoken to each other for over 3 years now. However, perhaps God used that volatile & estranging situation to organize and publish the […]
Have you ever been in a situation where someone stopped regarding you with favor? And God told you to leave the presence of that person? So you gather up your wives and concubines and livestock, and you leave. But then the person you’re fleeing from follows you for 7 days to confront you. And God […]