The City Of God
I’ve taken to summarizing our identity and our vocation by saying the Creator created creators to perpetuate Creation. The image the Bible uses to describe our work with God in…
Exporting Eden
We were meant to export the goodness of Eden to the four corners of the world until every square inch of Creation is saturated with God’s glory. That’s the end-goal…
Priests and Idols
Ancient temples needed two things: priests and idols. The idols contained the deity’s presence and the priests mediated that presence for the people. Genesis tells us God made humanity in…
A Garden of Rest
The Creator made our world and placed a garden in the center of it, calling the garden Eden. It was “paradise”—a Persian word for garden. The garden was sacred. Most…
New Genesis
In Luke 3.23 we read that “Jesus began his work.” Interestingly, if you were to translate Luke’s writing directly from Greek to English, the most accurate rendering of the text…
God Is Closer Than You Think
God’s glory is seen through Jesus’ normality, but it is seen with a certain hiddenness. Like peering into a side view mirror while driving, Jesus’ humanity reminds us that God…
God Wants Us To Be Human
Too many people want everything to be super-spiritual at the expense of being human. When I was growing up we had a gaggle of Christian keeners we called “The Power…
God Works Through People
Why did Jesus have to come in the first place? Simply, because God always works through people. God made the earth as a habitat for us, a playground where we…
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