With three little ones involved, Mary and I have discovered that the deleavening process takes more time than it used to. We lack the time (and...
The Unleavened Life: Taking in Sincerity and Truth
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Sabbath Thoughts
These posts are the heart and soul of the blog—food for though on God’s Sabbath day.
Blood on the Doorposts
Up until the tenth plague, it was enough to just be an Israelite. Beginning with the flies of the fourth plague, God “set apart the land of Goshen,...
The Ball Pit of Destiny
You’re standing at the edge of a ball pit. The pit itself is three feet high—about the level of your waist. For the most part, it looks exactly like...
The Precious Gift of Prayer
You can talk with God. And God will listen. The most powerful Being in this universe, and you have the ability to come before His throne—once,...
When the Answer Is en Route
Sometimes it’s hard for me to remember that the God who is unbound by time and space allows His actions to be bound by these same things. When we...
The Day the Heating Elements Quit
Yesterday was a funny day. Our dryer—that is, the dryer we were generously gifted 12 years ago when a family friend was upgrading their already...
The Assembling of Ourselves
Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful. And let us consider one another in order to stir up...
Do I Really Deserve to Be Here?
Out of all three questions we’ve been discussing these past few weeks, this is the easiest one to answer. No. Of course you don’t deserve to be...
Am I Really Contributing Anything?
We’ve been talking about Christian impostor syndrome for the last couple weeks, looking at three questions designed to help us grapple with those...
Am I Really Forgiven?
Last week, we started talking about Christian impostor syndrome. The amount of comments you all left on that post is a testament to how much this...
What Makes You Think You Belong Here?
“Why are you here?” That’s a question someone will traditionally ask every year at the Feast of Tabernacles. It’s a good question—an important...
The Comparable Helper
“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...
Permission to Fail
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...
What Gets Measured Gets Done
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...
Groanings Which Cannot Be Uttered
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...
In the Beginning, God Created
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...
Small and Great
“And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God” (Revelation 20:12). I don’t always stop to appreciate what an incredible thing it is to...
They All Saw It
Twelve spies saw the Promised Land. They all agreed that it was something special—a land filled with incredible blessings from God. They all agreed...