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 MOREFootprints [Blog]
In light of a series HuffPost is doing on spirituality in everyday life using pictures, I was inspired to do something similar from time to time. Here is the first image… When I saw these footprints in the sand, I was reminded of the ever popular image where there are two sets of footprints, then one set, which represents Jesus eventually carrying the person (many of you have seen it, I amREAD MORE