by Jeremy | Jan 12, 2024 | Sabbath Thoughts
“It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him” (Genesis 2:18). There are a lot of ways to misunderstand that verse. One way is to misunderstand what “helper” implies. It’s easy to imagine a helper as someone less skilled, less...
by Jeremy | Dec 29, 2023 | Sabbath Thoughts
You are trying to follow in the footsteps of God in the flesh. You will not do that perfectly. In fact, you will fail. A lot. But I think one of the most important elements of Christianity is how we approach that inevitable failure. I think most of us have a natural...
by Jeremy | Dec 22, 2023 | Sabbath Thoughts
Some numbers are really easy to track. You can keep track of how fast you run, how much money you make, how much you weigh, how many views your website gets. And if you keep a running log of those numbers, you can start to measure how fast they’re changing. You can...
by Jeremy | Dec 15, 2023 | Sabbath Thoughts
Over the past couple months, Peter’s verbal language skills have been exploding. For a while, he seemed content to do most of his communicating through a library of (creatively used) grunts and sound effects—but now, almost out of nowhere, he’s stringing together...
by Jeremy | Nov 17, 2023 | Sabbath Thoughts
In the Babylonian tablets called Enuma Elish, Marduk creates the earth when he rips apart the body of the sea goddess Tiamat, using the two halves to create the sky and the world. In Norse mythology, Odin and his brothers slay the proto-giant Ymir, using elements from...
