You can boast about anything if it’s all you have — from East of Eden…
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Let’s think about holiness as if it were a treasure map. God draws a boundary line, a separation, around all his character, the depths of his riches. The line separates all of who he is from everything that he is not. The border of this land is accessible to everyone. It attracts many visitors. However, to cross over the border you must be washed clean by the blood of Jesus Christ, our Redeemer. Although his blood, his very life, is given to us without price, it does requires us to give up our old self and become new creations in him. There is no other way.
The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit exist in a perfect, unified, mutual relationship of creative and sacrificial love. They do nothing apart from each other. The Father declared himself as holy (Exodus 3:14), which means Jesus and the Spirit are without a doubt also holy. In an effort to better understand the completeness of God’s holy nature, I want to look individually at the Son and Spirit.
A kazillion words are spoken around us every week. We only remember a handful of them. What did you hear this week?
This week, I want to go one step further with what separation means. God is not only separate and distinct, there is nothing like him.
Our daily lives are filled with separations and distinctions. We keep apples separate from bananas, high school students separate from middle school students, and north-bound traffic separate from south-bound traffic….
Five things I heard this week. The phrase “in a dream” appears five times in…
The idea of holy can be a little intimidating. If we misunderstand it, we will give it a bad reputation. As I began to study how God revealed himself as holy in the Bible, I was struck at the order in which it unfolded. He displayed what holy meant long before he said, I, the Lord your God, am holy. (Leviticus 19:2)
It’s easy for us to imagine that the Garden of Eden was all rest and play with no work. Subsequently, our idea of heaven can easily be all cloud-snuggled naps and angel wings. Although there is a promised peace that is coming with Christ’s return and the new heavens and new earth, I don’t believe it will be void of work. We are created in the image of God, and that includes working. He works—he creates, he moves, he watches, he protects, he provides, he works miracles. The psalmist even writes that he does not slumber or sleep (Psalm 121:3-4). He is an active God, and his movement is creative.
One of God’s most beautiful qualities is that he doesn’t change. He remains; he is faithful. If he was once the Creator, then he will always be Creator. Even when his creation messes up and listens to another voice, giving God’s rightful authority to another created thing, God creates still again.
Here are five things I heard this week. What have you heard? This God–his way…
Five things I heard this week. What did you hear? mutatis matandis – with the…
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