When Famine Comes

This semester I am teaching something called Chronological Bible Discipleship.  As you might infer, we’re going through the Bible chronologically in order to better understand the Bible as ONE story, not 66 independent books. All that to say, we spent some time...

Grace: Not Just a New Testament Doctrine

I had the pleasure of spending time with some remarkably brilliant women on Thursday morning.  We were training to lead a new Bible study in January, but really what we were doing was dissecting Genesis 1-3. Yeah, THAT Genesis 1-3.  The section of the Old Testament...

By Faith

This Christianity is a strange business.  The juxtaposition of faith and logic never seems to baffle me.  That’s not to say that all of Christianity is illogical, but, let’s just admit it, a lot of it is. By human standards, it makes zero sense that God...

Until

It’s not often I can squeeze two articles out of one verse in scripture, but here goes. Last week I wrote about Hosea 10:12, which says, “…break up your unplowed ground; for it is time to seek the Lord…” I stopped there not because I like...