I taught Romans 9 this week in Sunday School. A last-minute sub situation, so Saturday night I was reading through Romans. Just the text. All of my commentary aids were at the church. But I am well versed in the passage. It is the stalwart passage for Calvinism – a theology that believes God has […]
Read more "Letting go of Yesterday’s Vision"While reading a book I was struck by a GK Chesterton quote1. This may not be a good sign for the first book, but it spurred me to read CK Chesterton’s Everlasting Man (phenomenal… and weird). The quote – connecting dusk in the Garden of Eden with dawn on Easter – also pushed me to the […]
Read more "footfalls"As I shared on Easter, in the middle of dying eggs, Ivy dropped one. Which happens, but the shell didn’t just crack. Liquid started to seep. Startled, she asked, “what is happening?”, as the egg fully cracked in her hands. Of course, we confused our fresh and hard-boiled eggs. Meg was frustrated, but the rest […]
Read more "Breaking Eggs"This week read Luke 20-21 As we read through Luke each week there will be two devotions focusing on particular passages. Click here to read past devotions. Focus Point: God Forbid (Luke 20:9-19, 19:45-46 & 21:20-24) The Parables can feel like enigmas and sometimes they are difficult to interpret. But at other times the parable is […]
Read more "Beyond #23 (Luke 20&21)"This week read Luke 20-21 As we read through Luke each week there will be two devotions focusing on particular passages. Click here to read past devotions. Focus Point: “Fair-you-see” (Luke 19:39-40) This is from last week’s chapter, but I didn’t want to parade into the triumphal entry before now… Jesus rides in on a colt […]
Read more "Beyond #22 (Luke 20-21)"This week read Luke 18 & 19 As we read through Luke each week there will be two devotions focusing on particular passages. Click here to read past devotions. Focus Point: Reading Luke, Not Matthew (Luke 19:11-27) We often read this story in correlation with Matthew’s story of the talents (25:14-30), but there are key differences. […]
Read more "Beyond #21 (Luke 18&19)"This week read Luke 18 & 19 As we read through Luke each week there will be two devotions focusing on particular passages. Click here to read past devotions. Focus Point: Holier than… (Luke 18:9-14) “To some who were confident in their own righteousness… (v9)” The word for confident also occurs in Luke 11:22. In that […]
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