A Picture of Natural Flourishing
God promises that those who live rightly will flourish, just like healthy, fruitful, beautiful trees.
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Allegro Part 2—God’s Wonder Wandering
God knows all, and like most fathers and mothers he knows where his children are.
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Allegro Part 1—God’s Wonder Wandering
God came to the garden knowing there was a distortion, and He began to bring that broken creation into focus.
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Name What You’re Wrestling With
Seasons of wrestling in our work and life are often opportunities to make meaning and be transformed by God.
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God of Seeds, Part 2
The God of literal seeds in Genesis is the God of metaphorical seeds in the Gospel of Mark.
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God of Seeds, Part 1
If ever there was even the slightest question about whether or not God enjoys beauty, bluebonnets ought to settle the argument in favor of divine delight.
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Seeing the Glory
We must be shown God’s glory again: we must encounter it anew and afresh in the face of Jesus Christ; we must repent of our sin and turn and follow him.
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Labor Day in a Pandemic, Part 2
On this Labor Day weekend, we have an opportunity to value the work of all people, especially those whose work is deemed “essential.” By offering a simple “thank you for working,” we can acknowledge their labor and affirm the difference they are making, both in the world and our own lives. Why not say to those who serve you this weekend, “Thank you for your work”?
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Labor Day in a Pandemic, Part 1
On this Labor Day weekend, the global pandemic makes us especially aware of ways in which our world, including our work, is broken and, therefore, workers are suffering. But, as God’s people, we acknowledge the fundamental goodness of work and we seek God’s justice and peace for all workers. We yearn for the day when God will re-establish the created goodness of work for all.
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God’s Redeemed People #1: All Those Things You Saw in Your Pajamas
God can redeem anything and anybody, and God can use anything and anybody that he has redeemed.
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Truth and Institutional Evil – Part I
One of the foundational assertions of Scripture is that all human beings are created in God’s image. There are no privileged races or individuals in God’s eyes. That declaration was a radical challenge to the power of Pharaoh in Egypt during Israel’s enslavement, as it was to the Nazi regime in my parents’ day, and as it is to the power of structural racism in our generation. What will we do with that truth now?
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And God Saw That It Was Good
All humans are made in the image of God—a God who exists in perfect community. No human can deny that the image of God exists in anyone else. No human can exclude another from God’s beloved community.
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