Should We Give Simply Out of Abundance
Luke 21:1-4 And he looked up and saw the rich casting their gifts into the treasury; he also saw a poor widow casting two thin coins there. He said, “Truly, I tell you that this poor widow cast in more than all of them. For all of them cast in gifts from their abundance but she out of her deficiency, has placed in all that she had for life.” We have beenREAD MORE
Do nothing according to selfish ambition [Blog]
Philippians 2:3 Do nothing according to selfish ambition or empty conceit but with humility/modesty regard one another as higher/better than yourselves. I’ve spent the past year of my life in the academic bubble of doctoral work (after spending four and a half years in the bubble of graduate work/seminary). My world now is very different than the world that I inhabited before. Throughout this journey I’ve been reminded of the lessons thatREAD MORE
Don’t remember the former things?! [Blog]
Isaiah 43:18-19 Do not remember the former things and do not consider closely ancient things. Watch out! I am doing a new thing; now it sprouts up. Do you not know it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert. Don’t remember the former things?! Don’t remember the former things?! YOU CRAZY! After everything I’ve been through, you simply want me to forget about it?! My God,READ MORE
Loving Those Who Are Foreign [Blog]
Deuteronomy 10:19 And you will love the sojourner/foreigner/resident alien, because you were a sojourner/foreigner/resident alien in the land of Egypt. In Deuteronomy 10:12 the question is posed: “What is YHWH asking of you?” This question is followed by a series of laws or instructions. The premise of this instruction is that the obedience of the people is a reciprocal action for what YHWH has done for them. What has YHWH done? YHWHREAD MORE