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In Cultivate Well I talked about focusing on doing good, sowing something that would bear good fruit and give us something to share, and also about fighting the clutter in our own hearts so that we have space for the good works that God would
In Genesis 3 we see Adam and Eve fall, the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil is sometimes called a Tree of Testing. It was a test, but what was the lesson? And how were Adam and Eve to know the right answer? Well, it
In Dichotomy Do, Dichotomy Don’t I discussed how in Genesis God in the act of Creating the world separated many things. Some of those things are completely removed from the final image we see in Revelation, they are separated out and allowed to remain during
The first pages of Genesis set up several dichotomies. Heaven and earth, land and sea, day and night, Male and Female, Animal and Human. Sometimes these pairs are brought together in a kind of Marriage. Male and Female, obviously. Eden is a kind of
There is a motif running through the Bible of a Garden – Paradise. The Bible addresses the rat race that we humans set ourselves on trying to get into that Garden. We move from place to place, job to job, relationship to relationship, even church
In Genesis 3 we see God set for Adam and Eve a test. A test of how well, and how committed they are to attending to God’s voice. Will they veer off and follow another voice, or will they remain steadfast to the Voice that
This is the second in a four part series. In the first part I talked about the idea of maleness/femaleness and what God may have intended by that. In this part I will discuss what the Image of God means and how we maybe do
This is a four part series in which I wish to address and open a line of reasoning around some things that I think are very misunderstood in our culture and in the church today. In this part I will address the idea of maleness/femaleness
If you can say it, you can pray it. 🙂 In John 11:41-42, at the tomb of Lazarus, Jesus begins to pray. He thanks God for hearing Him, and then says, “I know you always hear me, but for the sake of those standing here, that
Cease striving and know that I AM God. This verse has been spoken over me for most of my life. At one point it became my mission to help others hear these words. I laugh at myself when I think back, because I was striving to
