Rule of Life
A Rule of Life is a means of ordering your world around God. It puts structure to your desire to know and follow Jesus.
The Year
It’s football season! And this is one of the greatest football movie scenes showing the depth of what often goes untapped in our lives. What does it take to look so deeply and extract so much? What sort of faith must one have to overcome the fear, pain, doubt, and uncertainty? “It is a land
Where are you?
Our lives seem to be dominated by the searching for lost or unknown items. Look at the power and dependency we have on Google. Many of us cannot drive from one place to another without the use of GPS and map software. Is this due to our perpetual state of being lost? Why do we
Sound of Trumpets Awaken God’s People
Today’s reading shines amazing light into the power of a community embracing corporate repentance. At the center of Rosh Hashanah is the shofar or trumpet. This is not a quiet soothing instrument but is designed to awaken, move, warn, and transform an entire community. What is the siren call in your life? This is not
Seize the Day
Dead Poets Society, the Robin Williams movie from 1989, made the line ‘Carpe Diem’ or ‘Seize the Day’ famous. This simple line is profound in the movie and in our lives. As we embrace repentance to look backward in order to move forward, we must be willing to act today. This call to look back
Where Are you?
From ‘A Season of Repentance’ https://www.bible.com/en/reading-plans/12652 Where are you? Where have you been and where are you going? An 18th-century rabbi named Shneur Zalman was once asked: “How are we to understand that God, the All-Knowing, said to Adam: ‘Where are you?’ after he sinned by eating the forbidden fruit.” The Rabbi replied, “Do you
Repentance
Rosh Hashanah one of the high holy days of the Jewish year starts today. It is a season of repentance, preparing for the new year. Interesting that it coincides with our first chapter from brother Yun’s book, Living Water. This first chapter focuses on the need for believers to do the hard deep work of