God’s Character
The Meeting of Opposites
Understanding the complex character of God is one of the believer’s big challenges. The God of the Old Testament seems harsh and unyielding in contrast to the New Testament God of love and grace. This has created such dissonance that many people prefer placing their study focus on the New…
Read MoreThe Mystique of Being Unconventional
Artists are often thought to be a little peculiar, so in college I took advantage of being an Art Major to be unconventional. My clothes were splashed with my current projects: pottery mud, paint, or ink, and sometimes blood from the slip of an X-Acto knife. I generally wore the…
Read MoreDeconstructing the Lie
Most of us are very familiar with the account of the Fall of Man where Eve was deceived by the serpent into eating forbidden fruit from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. It is tempting to judge her harshly for so easily believing the words of the…
Read MoreWhat Did You Expect?
I don’t really enjoy online shopping, even though it can be very convenient when I know what I want. But much of the time I am gift-shopping, meaning that I invest hours trying to decide what is the most wanted or needed item. Free shipping definitely impacts my decisions as…
Read MoreGod of the Unexpected
I cannot count the times God has done something amazing an entirely different way from what I expected. In fact, this happens so often that I have begun to believe that if I’ve thought of it, that is NOT the way the Lord will do it. My propensity to err…
Read MoreLet There Be Light
Light and dark are not just opposites, they mark the beginning of time when God launched creation with the heavens and the earth. Because darkness reigned over the earth, God said, “’Let there be light,’ and there was light. God saw that the light was good, and He separated the…
Read MoreInstruments in the Hands of God
The sea looked and fled, the Jordan turned back;4 the mountains leaped like rams, the hills like lambs.5 Why was it, sea, that you fled? Why, Jordan, did you turn back?6 Why, mountains, did you leap like rams, you hills, like lambs?7 Tremble, earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob. To most, these…
Read More“All” is Hard
Jesus was a fly in the religious ointment of the Pharisees and teachers of the Law. As hard as they tried, they could not trap Him or prove Him wrong in anything He said. So, the week of His crucifixion when Jesus was in the temple being bombarded by these…
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