Discouragement

Discouragement is a pain. That may be understatement of my life. I often wonder why so much of my life is spent in this state. It doesn’t make a lot of sense to me. And yet, it happens all the time, and when I’m in it, I can’t imagine how life was before it.
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Give and Take Community

I know I’ve only worked at Suncrest for a little while, but I really have had a great time so far. There’s been one thing that I have appreciated so much on the team I am a part of. I’m sure it happens other places, but I haven’t necessarily worked long enough in this sort [...]

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Control

So many good things in life are about giving up control. First take Leadership. When you start on the bottom rung with that meticulous scrutiny and attention to detail of the task are top priority. You control, you manipulate, you are the one who makes sure every T is crossed and [...]

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Need

Have you ever realized how desperately you need God? And not because of the times when you feel you need him, but because of the many, many times you don’t?
I’ll sometimes reflect back on my life and as I grow ever so slightly older, I realize how far away I am. I realize more [...]

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The Year of Jubilee

Leviticus 25 is incredible. It’s where God tells the Israelites about the year of Jubilee. God tells the people that after 49 years [7 “weeks” of years], that they were to give the land a rest from its “work.” More than that, on the 50th year, people who had lost their lands or sold themselves [...]

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Working out our salvation or working for it?

I’ve been reading Galatians. In chapter 3 Paul gets into really railing the Galatians for their stupidity. James Montgomery Boice agrees in his commentary. Paul isn’t saying at the beginning that the Galatians are incapable of figuring out this faith, but the word he uses points to their ability to think, yet their failure [...]

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Another facet of tithing (it’s different and good, I promise)

Gordan Wenham –a researcher and great commentator on biblical stuff– says some cool stuff about the burnt offering we read about in Leviticus (p85-86): “The central act of the burnt offering was the killing and burning of the animal on the altar. This represents the giving of the animal to God. But why [...]

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A Perspective on Tithing

I started reading Leviticus recently. There’s a lot of good stuff that comes out of Leviticus—a lot of things Jesus told his people. It was a core book in the Jewish faith and even we would recognize famous quotes like “love your neighbor as yourself” and “be holy for I am holy.” Well, I [...]

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Living by the Spirit… and then legalizing it

Sometimes, I just don’t understand, God. I’ve often grappled with the not-so-line between legalism and living by the Spirit and then telling others to do so. Living by the Spirit makes it hard for me to call others out on things. It would be easy if you could just say, “This is good, [...]

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Art

Art is all about expression and interpretation. Creativity is important to me. I found as I spoke to a friend of mine. She didn’t see the point in some art forms, but I tried to convince her why it was important. She found that she actually appreciated art in some areas, but just [...]

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