Thoughts, stories and ideas.

🌱🌿🍇🌾 Abiding in the Presence of God: Trusting His Work in His Time [3 parts]

Introduction From the garden of Eden to the tabernacle and temple, from the incarnation of the Word to the promise of a renewed creation, Scripture reveals God's desire to dwell among His people. This dwelling theme provides a rich context for understanding Jesus' invitation to abide in

👂❤️✝️🕊️🤲🙏 When Hearing Becomes a Way of Life the Word We Hear Becomes the Love We Practice [3 parts]

Introduction Throughout Scripture, hearing God is never presented as an isolated exercise in receiving information. To hear His voice is to encounter His character, recognize His authority, and respond to what He reveals. The biblical story repeatedly distinguishes between those who hear sounds and those who truly listen—between receiving

🌱 ❤️ 🧠 🌿 🗣️ 🤝 From the Heart to the Mouth: The Formation of a Life Through the Word of God [3 parts]

Introduction - 🌱 What Fills the Heart Shapes the Life Few things reveal a person more than what they say, and Scripture treats speech as the final stage of a longer process, connecting what a person receives into the heart, what occupies the mind, and what eventually emerges through words and actions.

👁️👂❤️🧠💔 The Heart God Desires: Matthew's Interpretation of the Sixth Chapter of Isaiah [3 parts]

Introduction Throughout Scripture, God repeatedly calls His people to hear. Yet biblical hearing is never confined to the reception of sound or information. God's Word is intended to reach the heart, awaken understanding, produce a response, and ultimately reshape the way a person lives. Scripture therefore uses surprisingly

🌍🏛️🔥🪴 Citizens of Heaven, Servants on Earth: Allegiance, Transformation, and the Witness of God’s People

Introduction ✨ Where do we truly belong when the place where we live is not the ultimate source of our identity? How should allegiance to God shape our participation in the societies, households, and communities in which we find ourselves? Scripture approaches these questions through the experiences of citizens, exiles, servants,

(A) 🌾🪙🗝️ The Measure of What We Can Bear: Revelation, Capacity, and Faithful Stewardship [3 parts]

Introduction ✨ We often assume that the best teacher is the one who gives us all the information available. If truth is good, then surely receiving more truth must always be better. Yet the way Jesus teaches His disciples presents a more nuanced picture. Jesus sometimes speaks plainly, sometimes through parables,

🧵⛺✨ Priscilla and Aquila: A Portrait of a Marriage in Mission [3 parts]

Introduction Some people enter Scripture with thunder: kings, prophets, apostles, conquerors, and miracle workers whose names become permanently attached to great events. Others enter almost quietly. Their names appear in a handful of sentences, their accomplishments are scattered across different books, and their story must be reconstructed from the traces

🌾✝️✨ The Source That Is Never Exhausted: From Manna to Christ and the Life of Daily Dependence [3 parts]

Introduction ✨ Scripture repeatedly places God's people in circumstances where the resources visible to them seem inadequate for the life ahead. Israel finds itself in a wilderness without bread; a widow in Zarephath faces a final handful of flour and a little oil. Yet these stories are not simply

👑 When Pride Demands Others Bow: Nebuchadnezzar, Haman, and the Kings of Babylon/Tyre [3 parts]

Introduction ✨ Throughout Scripture, bowing is more than a physical gesture. It can signify honor, submission, worship, recognition of authority, or acknowledgment of a place someone occupies within an ordered world. But what happens when the person expected to bow resents the one receiving the honor—or when the person receiving

🌱🌳🌾🔥 The Worshiper and the Worship: From Cain's Offering to a Life Poured Out to God [3 parts]

Introduction ✨ Throughout Scripture, God receives offerings, hears prayers, accepts worship, and calls His people to gather before Him. Yet Scripture repeatedly presses beneath the outward act of worship to a deeper question: What kind of person is standing before God? The biblical story does not allow worship to remain detached

(B) ✨🫙🫗🍞🌾 From Sidon to Samaria: God's Just Judgments and Faithful Mercy to Widows [3-parts]

Introduction ✨ There are biblical stories that seem small when viewed in isolation: a widow gathering sticks, a nearly empty jar of oil, a child lying dead, a prophet crossing a geographical boundary, a sentence spoken by Jesus in a synagogue. Yet Scripture has a remarkable way of allowing these seemingly

(A) 🏛️🗣️🤫 The Unseen Story: God's Word, Providence, and the Signs Hidden in 1 & 2 Kings and Esther [3 parts]

Introduction ✨ The books of Kings and Esther invite us to look beneath the events they describe. At first glance, both seem concerned with the movements of history: kings rise and fall, kingdoms divide and collapse, rulers make decisions, political powers threaten God's people, and seemingly ordinary circumstances alter