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 Lot’s wife did look back. She was turned into a pillar of salt. I have always

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 day, but it also points to the big Days. The observance of Passover, that the Jews

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 you prepare them is very different too. You can eat them both raw, but that gets dull

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 like Him and reflect His Image in everything they do. To truly represent Him, we have

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 develop that idea a little further. Amos 3:7 says, “The Lord does nothing without first revealing it to

This week at the Bible study I’m teaching, one of the men asked about Matthew 6:13, “Lead me not into temptation, but deliver me from evil.” I’ve heard this verse questioned before, but it was the first time the question was directed to me personally, and

The word Christian literally means “Christ-like.” By that definition there aren’t any. 🙂 Jesus the Christ is wholly unique. There is no one like Him in all of history. He left the earth at only 33 years old. He literally lifted straight up off the earth

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. God said let there be light and there was light. God separated the light from the darkness. The light He called Day and the darkness He called Night. And the evening and the morning were

Today I was reflecting on the imagery of gardens in the Bible. God began His conversation with us in a garden. A quiet, beautiful place where we could walk and talk with God.  During the Exodus, the Israelites wandered through the wilderness. A stark contrast to the

“Do not be deceived, God is not mocked. You will reap what you sow.” I think sometimes we get confused though. I think the devil convinces us that we are reaping, when we are really sowing. He tells us, “Grab that sweet juicy fruit! The good times,