We Walk On God’s Path
Too often people think both our human origin and our destination are milquetoast, namby-pamby watercolors of dandelion-skipping and harp-playing. But these Pollyanna depictions miss out on what the Bible actually…
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…
Images as Apologetic
The prophets employed stories, images, and metaphors as their default apologetic. Nathan, for example, knew he wouldn’t have success confronting King David directly, so he told the King a parable…
Unfounded Ideas
I’m always nervous when I meet a Christian who has ideas about God I cannot find in scripture. Because there are lots of neat ideas about God out there—or gods,…
Guardrails
Some, of course, will let their Biblicism run rampant. They will enjoy arguing and debating far more than they enjoy applying the deeper truths behind the words on the page….
Reviving the Story of God
Every revival in history has begun with a fresh reading of scripture in the common parlance of the people. People hear the Word, they read the Word, they discover the…
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