To those in the pro-Roe movement, Roe v Wade represents freedom (specifically reproductive freedom and sexual “liberation” for women), but to those in the pro-life movement that freedom is at the expense of life for the baby who can’t be seen except with a pregnancy test and a high-powered microscope. But God sees. Someday we […]
Christians, such as I, see that we’re living in a New Covenant world. One of grace, freedom, love, obedience to Christ, and proclamation of the Gospel. They are all facets of the New Covenant world. This New Covenant world has deep roots before the Old Covenant and even back to Eden when God gave Adam […]
I beg your indulgence as I branch the New Covenant idea to venture into political territory today and for the next few installments. It’s important or I wouldn’t do it. The decision on Roe v Wade was issued on January 22, 1973. For any woman born in 1960 or after, it’s been part—even though controversial—of […]
What do you think of when you hear the word “covenant”? In my biblical worldview, it is a core rock-solid promise with a gentle wrapping of love and boundaries for safety, and security. It has positive vibes all around it. It’s unconditional love and always a good thing. God’s covenants were special because God establishes […]
The old way had been in effect since Genesis. It was a dead way. Animal sacrifices over and over and over because sin flowed non-stop from a sin nature we inherited from Adam (and Eve), the first sinner(s). The old way was designed to remind us that the “wages of sin is death” (Romans 6:23). […]
Until Resurrection Day, death had the final say. I wonder if Satan chortled an evil chortle in Eden as he thought he’d outsmarted God. Maybe thinking God had made a pivotal error of promising, even threatening mortality if Adam (and Eve) ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, though it was […]
On Easter Sunday, I went to a local beach with my parents for a sunrise service to celebrate God’s making all things new in the resurrection of Christ. A highlight for me was watching the sun rise in the east as the full moon set over the Gulf of Mexico. It made me wish I […]
Revelation 21:1 Then I saw “a new heaven and a new earth,” for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. 2 I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. […]
It’s Easter Sunday. The tomb is empty. The Lord Jesus is Risen (Luke 24). All things have been made new (Revelation 21:5). The consequence of the fall of man–our mortality–has been paid in full. And there’s new hope for us in Him because of it. The sting of death is gone. The grave has no […]
You may have heard statements like “It’s always darkest before the dawn” or “Calm before the storm.” Each refers to a time just before the “Soon”. Silent, dark, stillness. In the flow of Passion Week, Jesus is in the tomb. Soon, everything will be made new because He defeated sin and death on the Cross. […]
