When God makes a covenant with Israel after they escaped Egypt, he committed himself to it with a covenant cutting ceremony: the blood of an ox was divided in half, with one half thrown toward God (the altar) and the other half thrown toward the people of Israel. In...
From the Garden of Eden on humans have tried to dethrone God. As a response, God becomes one of us. By doing this, God forgives us and heals us so that we can begin to look like God in ways we never could in our rebellion against him. Readings and sermon were...
Jesus intentionally delays going to Lazarus' sickbed because he wants to wait until he's dead so that he can heal him. Knowing he's going to heal him doesn't mean he takes his friend's death lightly though – Jesus is deeply affected and moved...
To be "in the Spirit", according to St. Paul in Romans 8:1-11, means living under the final verdict of not guilty, living a life of fulfillment of God's righteous requirement, and living with the guarantee of future resurrection. Readings and sermon were...
When Jesus' disciples ask him what sins caused a particular man to be born blind, Jesus shockingly says it happened not because of sin but because God wanted an opportunity to glorify himself. After Jesus heals him, the contest between the man, his family, the...
The final chapter in the story of the Bible (in other words – the story of human history) is God coming to live with his people on the new earth. God's goal was never to take a disembodied people up to live with him in heaven, but to come and live with us on...
