They’re puzzle pieces perhaps, but they aren’t the pieces that are designed and destined to fit the hole that is in the puzzle (e.g., the God-shaped hole in us). Trying to force it to fit just causes frustration and exasperation, and never actually solves the problem. The puzzle p...
All of the Bible is about Jesus as seen in Luke 24:44-45. The picture of the bloodshed of Jesus was represented in the bloodshed of animals as recorded for the 1st time after Adam/Eve had sinned. There is a gaping theological hole in the argument thatratherthan there being representative...
I was once eating in a university cafeteria when I heard a religious man make the argument to a fellow he was trying to “educate” that went like this: “If there’s not a God, why should I be nice to my wife–why shouldn’t I kick the hell out of my dog?” My first thought...
“Washington Post columnist Perry Bacon Jr., wrote about feeling a ‘church-sized hole’ after he left the church and joined the nones” (Sophie Lee, I Don’t Remember When I Realized I Didn’t Have A Community”, Christianity Today, July/August, 2024, pp 78,79) Sadly, when we are ...
There is a gaping hole between verse 20 and 21. There is a lack of information that makes my imagination run wild. I thought about it for days after that staff meeting. And then again this morning after my friend texted. What happened in those days? The shepherds left. The heavenly host...
We don’t have to read too far in the Bible before we discover the truth. Abraham certainly didn’t become a great man of faith overnight. He had to go through some difficult tests on the road of life before he reached the top of the mountain. No sooner did Abraham arrive in Canaan...
No, I’m not changing my blogsite name or creating a new Bible translation of Hebrews 12:1. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the verse that has literally changed – and dare I say – saved my life this last decade. But does God really mean “RUN the race He has set before...
A Vision of God’s Glory - In the thirtieth year, on the fifth day of the fourth month, while I was among the exiles at the Kebar River, the heavens
My family and I are mourning our loss. Allan leaves a huge hole in our lives. However, we are celebrating God’s grace and mercy. Allan lived Paul’s words in1 Timothy 4:7,I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.Our prayer is that you will...
I opened my bible, those strange words from the previous morning drifting through my mind like an echo. Grasping the wafer-thin pages in wads, I flipped towards the back till I reached Romans 8, then skimmed down to the verse I was after—number thirty. There, once again, I found the...