Risking Everything to Reach Everyone.
So I’m taking a risk posting this picture. Let’s be honest, it’s not your typical image of Jesus right, embracing a woman who. . . well, you get the idea right.
Yet we hear the stories of Jesus taking incredible risks to reach people. In Luke 15 Jesus goes through parable after [...]
What are you trying to build?
I like this image because it literally turns things upside down. The tower of Babel is correctly interpreted as a real and symbolic act of the pride of humankind. “Come let’s build a tower that reaches to the heavens so that we may make a name for ourselves”.
Are you trying [...]
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Ok, so this story is less than inspiring. This image is probably less than inspiring as well. Think about how quickly sin spread. The first sin was a rebellion against God, eating of the fruit. And while we all acknowledge that to be a clear evil, what’s even more shocking is to see how that [...]
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So this is the text and image I’ve been considering this week as our church continues it’s series, “Lessons from Eden”. I’ve been thinking about the fallout post-fruit-eating.
We all think about the consequences- serpent crawling on his belly, Eve with pain in childbirth, Adam having to toil on the ground, and of course, death and [...]
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God’s Word is. . .
True
Comforting
Surprising
Life Changing
Always With Us
If you’ve been part of a High Seas Expedition VBS program this summer these phrases will leap out at you. They’ve gotten me thinking about God’s Word. We can say much about God’s Word. My favorite verse on God’s Word (what the Bible says about the Bible right [...]
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“Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden?’”
With these words temptation entered the experience of Eve.
I love this image because sometimes when we read the text we see Eve giving into the temptation and I don’t think we sense the struggle. Here’s a woman who doesn’t know sin and [...]
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Go ahead and google “Adam and Eve“. I give you permission to check it out before you come back here.
Do you notice anything about the results that are pulled up. Almost every single image that’s returned is of the temptation, the fall, or the expulsion. Why is this so?
It’s interesting that when we think [...]
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When you hear the phrase “imago Dei” or “image of God”, what does it make you think?
I’ve been studying the idea that we’re created in the image of God for the beginning of a sermon series this Sunday. The series is “Lessons from Eden”, but we’re beginning by exploring the idea that God created us [...]
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Ok, so I like this image, but first off I need to say it was hard to find something good for the fruit of the Spirit. This seems like such an inspiring idea that would have motivated countless artists to create something unique and insightful. Not so much. So if you’re looking for a good [...]
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So I have to give my old college/Sem friend, Nate Reichle, credit for this post. I hadn’t seen much this week that was moving me when I saw on FB that he was preaching on the widow of Nain this week around the idea of restoration.
I liked that thought and as I was looking at [...]
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