A few days ago I wrote a bit about humans being the image, or eikon, of God. As I continued to reflect on this I…
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A few days ago I wrote a bit about humans being the image, or eikon, of God. As I continued to reflect on this I…
Leave a CommentOver this past weekend, between taxes and chores, I read Suzanne Collins’ “The Hunger Games.” With all of the recent hype over the movie, I…
Leave a CommentBack in 1986 Peter Gabriel released the song, Big Time. Part of the lyric reads, “And I will pray to a big god, as I…
Leave a CommentRecently, I heard a pastor talk about the place of human kind in the creation. His comments revolved around humans being the pinnacle of God’s…
Leave a CommentThe story of the Father and the prodigal is one of my favorite stories in Scripture. It reveals the relentless love that our Abba has…
Leave a CommentA few years back I heard a lecture by Old Testament scholar Terence Fretheim. In it he spoke about God’s use of agency in the…
Leave a CommentAs I press prayer deeper, I find that there are more than enough distractions to try and keep me from pressing prayer deeper. I’ve read…
Leave a CommentAh, yes…the good old days. Ward and June Cleaver, Ozzie and Harriet, Archie and Edith. One man; one woman. What ever happened to those days?…
Leave a CommentHenri Nouwen wrote in Turn My Mourning into Dancing about how people are many times driven by fear of losing something that they have. We…
Leave a CommentThe other morning I was meditating on Jesus in the garden of Gethsemane. Much ink has been spilled on what took place that night as…
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