This is the vision that Isaiah son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem: — Isaiah 2:1 NLT In the first chapter of Isaiah, our author shares vivid imagery in the current relationship between Israel, Judah and God. Harshness doesn’t hide in the recorded text with sentences like, “Stop bringing…
A baby lives for minutes after she’s born. A twenty-one-year-old son and a close friend to dozens of peers dies after a series of bad choices. The word cancer is back. Your financial security is not secure. A single, want-to-be dad still waits to adopt after five years of…
…for through him God created everything in the heavenly realms and on earth. He made the things we see and the things we can’t see—such as thrones, kingdoms, rulers, and authorities in the unseen world. —Colossians 1:16 In my heartbreak, my mom and I will compare my life with my…
Are your experiences with God shareable, or should they be kept private? We begin with this question as we pick up from last week’s column where I wrote about how many of us have become our own islands when it comes to sharing our godly experiences. In last week’s conclusion,…
I get it. You have your relationship with God. It’s personal. It’s private. And it’s none of anyone else’s business. For some, there is no draw to come to worship because the church may strain your relationship with God, which, according to you, is fine as it is. After all,…
I will climb up to my watchtower and stand at my guardpost. There I will wait and see what the LORD says and how he will answer my complaint. — Habakkuk 2:1, NLT You can imagine this verse is throwing some serious heat, some “tone” as we say in my…
