He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God. (Micah 6:8 NIV) Often used in the context of social justice, this passage reads like a road map for righteous living. With three imperative…
“God hates me. I know he does,” my friend cried in desperation. Malachi 1:3 and Romans 9:13 say, “God hated Esau.” “If God can hate Esau then he can hate me too,” my friend reasoned. But Scripture also says God is love, and perfect love casts out fear. She had me wondering, “Can love and…
“That is why I speak to them in parables, because looking they do not see, and hearing they do not listen or understand.” (Matt 13:13 CSB) We have grown accustomed to clickable headlines, sharable memes, and quoteable tweets. Without researching the backstory (sometimes without reading the whole article), social media users are quick to share…
Our boys are twenty months apart in age, and when they were young, we lived in a small town that required us to drive about twenty-five minutes each way to the grocery store. Once, after this half-day event, I was loading groceries and kids into our car on the cusp of meltdowns into our car…
Recently, while reading through 1 Corinthians, I came to a full stop at chapter 3, verse 5. Paul was talking about how he had heard the Corinthian believers were dividing into factions. They seemed to have been bragging about who were the better Christians. “I follow Paul,” “I follow Apollos,” “I follow Cephas,” or “I…
When I think about the word “sin,” I think about things like lying, coveting, gossip, and murder. But as I continue to observe the current state of humanity, it is obvious that the sin of pride displaying itself through elitism and supremacy has pervaded both our past and our present. Jesus’s Model As we follow…