This is a cross made from 2 eights. In my sweet symbolic language with God 8 is the number of infinity, eternity, uncertainty, unknowing, the posture of trust. In the vertical it is in relationship to God. In the horizontal it is in relationship to others. The cross...
One often hears the phrase “You look radiant!” in the context of a new bride and groom, a man and woman expecting a baby, or upon holy baptism…. each circumstance having one thing in common…. Changed identity… a bride and groom become...
I have shared on several occasions with friends or students about a lady who attended church with us when our children were preschoolers. I made a point of making her acquaintance to see if she was as gracious as she appeared. She was a retired kindergarten teacher in...
Continuing a Sunday morning study series on “Flawed Families of the Bible”, this week we looked at Judah and Tamar (Genesis 37-38). Judah is an interesting character study…..and the transformation wrought in his life by Tamar’s move to force...
In a recent devotional from seedbed.com JD Walt asked had we considered that the church has no “doctrine of love” and wouldn’t it be a good thing to have? I contemplated his question for several days before he got back to it today in a devotional in...
It seems to me that sometimes God removes from our lives what would have become an idol in our lives to prevent that very thing from happening….. I have thought about this in regard to King David and the death of his first child with Bathsheba. If God had let...
