Why Can’t Words Undo Actions? For that matter, can words undo words? Or is it that once spoken can they never be unspoken? Did you ever think you’d see Al Franken and Harvey Weinstein in a Christian devotional? (Yeah, me neither.) They apologized in words conveying regret, they expressed their support for the women they […]
Repentance, it’s one of those words. Christian jargon that only religious people actually use or try to understand fully. It’s one of those actions Christians don’t practice as they should. It’s a change of heart, a change of direction, and a change of behavior. It’s making up one’s mind to agree with God about sin […]
It’s Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent and the beginning of Pi and Chi: Asking and Answering Questions Why, our devotional series for Lent 2018. And what’s the beginning of Lent without a little guilt trip? Ash Wednesday is a perfect day to feel the deep guilt we daily brush aside. A day also to […]
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 […]
