christian living from exodus 19

The Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, in his book The Home We Build Together , points out to the reader that in scripture the description of the creation of the universe in Genesis is given a mere thirty-fou...

I once heard a sermon that compared believers to commercials for God. “And God doesn’t need any bad commercials,” I remember the preacher saying. It stuck with me, and from then on I often made decisi...

The Church has water and tears, the water of baptism and the tears of repentance.

O God, whose reason rules the world, who formed the starry heights above, timeless, time’s chain far forth you hurled, unmoved, gave all things power to move. Prevailed on by no outside cause to fashi...

“Would I rather be feared or loved? That’s easy. Both. I want people to be afraid of how much they love me.”

The road to the promised land runs past Sinai.

The kingdom of God: God’s people in God’s place under God’s rule and blessing.