Dokimos

Dokimos

Mount Moriah loomed in the distance, and with each footstep, the mountain seemed to grow bigger and more intimidating. Abraham has spent much of his life wandering, but this journey, these footsteps, were the hardest ones he’d ever taken. Beside him was his son,...
The Chumps Who Had to Move the Tabernacle

The Chumps Who Had to Move the Tabernacle

The Israelites spent 40 years wandering through the wilderness on their way to the Promised Land. That’s 40 years of setting up camp and taking down camp. Forty. Years. Every time God told them to move, it was a process. Setting up. Taking down. Setting up....
Knowing

Knowing

“And supper being ended, the devil having already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray Him, Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into His hands, and that He had come from God and was going to God, rose from supper...
Earthen Vessels

Earthen Vessels

Babies are pretty incompetent. I mean that in the nicest way possible, but it’s true—at least for human babies. The animal kingdom is a whole different story. Take giraffes. When a giraffe gives birth to her calf, the baby falls about six feet and hits the...
A Letter in a Shoebox

A Letter in a Shoebox

In a decorative shoebox, sitting on the fourth shelf of the bookcase in our living room, is a letter I spent the past year and a half avoiding. I knew who wrote it. I knew why they wrote it. I knew what it was about and I knew, deep in my heart, that reading it would...