Lent is a time of inward reflection and yielding to the work of the Holy Spirit as he convicts us of sin. But what is sin, exactly? The Bible gives us specific vocabulary for sin, and some of that vocabulary relates to things we do that we ought not...
With seven little ones at home, we have a little pantry filled with (mostly) healthy snacks. There’s hardly a waking hour that goes by that one of the kids doesn’t ask for a snack. They request sugary snacks first. Our kids’ constant hunger...
The anticipation of Christ’s coming begins not in the Gospels, but in the Old Testament. In fact, it begins all the way back in Genesis 3:15, which reads, “I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring...
Revelation 1:1 “The revelation of Jesus Christ“ Jesus is the great revealer. If it weren’t for Jesus, we wouldn’t know God. We could know about God through general revelation, but we would not know him personally. We would not know that...
This is an excerpt from an upcoming book to be published by Seedbed. We began our journey with Moses and the burning bush. In that story, God commanded Moses to take off his sandals because he was standing on holy ground. The ground was holy because...
What are we to think and how are we to respond, as Christians, to the Russian invasion of Ukraine? For starters, the people of God are no strangers to the topic and reality of geopolitics. Abraham’s rescue of Lot among warring kingdoms, the...
ustifying faith of the believer, God declares the guilty-sinner innocent. By doing so, God makes the sinner righteous, or just.
