The “God is so proud of you, yet ask nothing of me in return,” is a way for people to make sure they or their church/ministry are benefited with little to no requirements to do anything in return. The lie told is that “you are doing this for God so it’s what God wants for...
Michelangelo's God Creating Adam on the Sistine Chapel ceiling. The pinnacle of Renaissance painting and masterpiece ofMichelangelocovers the ceiling and altar wall of the Sistine Chapel, the grand hall where the College of Cardinals meets to elect a new pope. ...
This deep sea of joy is made available to us as weobeyGod–another reality that makes some bristle. They don’t realize when Christ tells us to follow God’s ways, he’s not trying to make our lives miserable. He’s showing us the way to enjoyabundance of life(John 15:9-11; John...
As he did so, more wolves began to appear and eventually led him to a small clearing, where he found a painting of what seemed to be him pointing his knife at someone. He then heard someone behind him, claiming that the painting wasn't finished yet, startling him and causing him to...
In that text, God told Adam and Eve to subdue the earth and have dominion over it. The Hebrew word there is kabash. We speak of putting the “kabash” on someone as squashing them from a position of strength. The charge of dominion (kabash) was given to Adam and Eve before the ...
A young boy, the next day after hearing in Sunday School how God took a rib from Adam's side and made his wife Eve, was running around the track at school and got a side ache. When the teacher saw him bent over, he went and asked what was wrong. The boy replied, "I think I'...
God has proven this nature about Himself to humanity throughout the ages. He has maintained a covenantal relationship with humanity since creation. Even in our sinfulness, God continued to maintain patience with us and show us mercy. When Adam and Eve sinned, before they had to leave the ...
Eve was not taken out of Adam's head to top him, neither out of his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected by him, and near his heart to be loved by him. —Matthew Henry ...
Disobedience would bring God’s anger, thus, Adam and Eve ran and hid. Oh, so familiar. And though Father God already knew, He called out anyway, “Where are you?” I always believed they hid because newfound knowledge of nakedness ushered in vulnerability. And of course, there was ...
(He’s never been enrolled in art classes – it’s a new talent he’s wanting to develop!) The other day a couple of our kids were busy happily painting and drawing around our dining room table with a local friend of theirs, and Darwin got right into the mix with them for several ...