Reminder: February 14th (Ash Wednesday) is the beginning of Pi and Chi: Asking and Answering Questions Why, our Lent 2018 Devotional Series. It’ll be 40 days of hard questions and seeking thoughtful answers. Maybe you always wanted to know. Maybe you were afraid to ask. Maybe questions to get you to think outside the box […]
What do you think of when you think of the tree of life? Do you think of something like a fountain of youth that would make you immortal if you were to take one bite of its fruit? Do you think of its fruit magically making your life more fulfilling? Or do you think of […]
There are many Fractured Fairytales of the Fall of Man. In the movie, Walk the Line, Jerry Lee Lewis states, “We’re all going to hell for the songs we sing” as he explains about that “great big apple” and “Don’t touch it.” It reinforces the idea that Eve grabbed an apple from the apple tree […]
Soon Lent begins. An annual rhythm, a cycle, a circle, a question repeated: Why?” Every year I pray through what to do for Lent (not so much what to give up, although this year Lent begins on Ash Wednesday otherwise known as February 14th, Valentine’s Day much to the chagrin of vendors of chocolate, a […]
Why, oh why didn’t God warn Adam about that tree? (He did.) *** Why, oh why did God put that tree there in the first place? (Because the tree was good, even if the fruit of it was not ripe for mankind’s consumption yet.) *** Why, oh why didn’t God tell Adam what would happen? […]
Two trees have had more ink spilled on their accounts than any other. In Genesis 2:9, we see all kinds of trees: “And the LORD God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground– trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. In the middle of the garden were the […]
“In a selfish act of laziness, God created Adam for slavery and shoved him into Eden’s trenches to work as a landscaper and even put him on a hyper-restrictive diet, laying down the law about what he could eat.” Unfortunately, that is precisely the meaning that way too many people believe when they read Genesis […]
Genesis 2:8 Now the LORD God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed. 9 And the LORD God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground– trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. We can all agree that […]
The Garden of Eden—even the name suggests abundance, everything lush and beautiful. The romantic view is that the Garden was a tropical paradise, replete with flowering plants and with jungle-like, untamed greenery both wild and wonderful. Kind of like Costa Rica, only better. Sorry to pop your bubble, but Costa Rica and even Hawaii aren’t […]
Genesis 1:9 And God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear.” And it was so. 10 God called the dry ground “land,” and the gathered waters he called “seas.” And God saw that it was good. 11 Then God said, “Let the land produce vegetation: […]
