Slaves of Death

“Now since the children have flesh and blood in common, Jesus also shared in these, so that through His death He might destroy the one holding the power of death–that is, the Devil–and free those who were held in slavery all their lives by the fear of death” (Hebrews 2:14-15).             Certainly, the above verses…

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The Book of the Wretched Sins of Mankind (and Especially Yours)

“[T]he heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God” (Ezek. 1:1). Ezekiel does not begin with man’s sin but with God.  Sin is not the center of the universe, God’s thoughts, or His eternal plan.  Unfortunately, in the way we often think about the Lord, sin usurps the place that belongs to God’s glory. …

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Coming to Moriah

Originally posted on Bread for the Bride:
When Abraham laid his son Isaac on a sacrificial altar no witness was present but God. The Bible is silent on whether Abraham wept as he bound the boy to the firewood. The scriptures do not tell us whether he averted his eyes from Isaac’s frightened gaze. If…

Keep on the Shunny Shide

A book I’m reading advocates for the Matthew 18 model of church discipline: If someone sins, talk to him one on one.  If he doesn’t respond, re-approach with two or three others.  If that doesn’t work, take him before the church.  If he doesn’t listen to the church, “let him be like an unbeliever and…

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Conversations with God

In other posts, I’ve talked about my conversion, talking myself out of my conversion, investigating eastern religions, and finally returning to Christianity.  Soon after deciding to re-investigate Christianity, I ran into one of Jehovah’s Witnesses (JW’s) and got entangled with them for six months.  I will spare you a long description of that little foray.  One…

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Knowing the Satisfied God–Rabon Byrd

Knowing the Satisfied God–Rabon Byrd A few months back, one of my Facebook friends posted a quote that caught my attention.  The quote was from a book he had written, and he was meditating on it.  I asked for a copy of the book and a pdf version of Knowing the Satisfied God appeared in my…

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More than Eden

Before the fall, Adam and Eve lived in the garden of Eden. They weren’t subject to sin or death.  But they hadn’t eaten from the tree of life either.  Had they eaten from that tree, the Lord wouldn’t have stopped them after the fall: “Since man has become like one of Us, knowing good from…

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The Fullness of Every Message

When it comes to the Bible, I am passionate about one thing above all others—seeing Christ in every scripture (Luke 24:44-46). While I acknowledge other messages in scripture, Christ is the fullness of every other message. We must see that Christ is the end of old covenant laws.  He is the substance of the commandments…

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God Is Peace

Gentle soundless seeksinkless dea(p)th touching pain at every inside outside soothed surrounded floating cell self sealed beneath untrapped enwombed free child of soft vast rolling placentasm heavenly emptied pure safe purged far far away from obscene screaming concrete necessities. Gratefully I am totally blissfully eternally lost at the bottom of the ocean.

What the Cross Means to Me–Katie McKamey

My daughter attends a Christian School.  Above is a picture of something she wrote for school around Easter.  In her own words, she talks about the meaning of the cross.  It is simple, without pretenses, and beautiful.  Truly, God has prepared praise from the mouths of children and infants (Matt. 21:16).  Read what she wrote…

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