I’ve been wrestling with this for the last several days. I went for a hike early on Saturday morning while we were away and found a beautiful little spot to watch the sunrise. I know that I was technically on someone else’s property, but they […]
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Imago Scriptura 115 – 1 Peter 2:9 – Wonderful Light
But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. I woke up this Thanksgiving morning and read this passage and my mind immediately went to […]
Imago Scriptura 107 – Jeremiah 18:1-11 – Inside
I went on a hike this morning and was blessed to take in the beauty of autumn here. But there was this one leaf that really caught my eye. It had fallen from a tree and was caught up in the branches of a small […]
Imago Scriptura 93 – Psalm 126 – Dreams
Psalm 126 begins, “When the Lord restored the fortunes of Zion, we were like those who dreamed…” I get the sense as I hear these words and those that follow that the people are feeling like they are living in a sense of unreality. Their […]
Imago Scriptura 89 – Psalm 104 – Beautiful Details
So, I was all set for working on something to continue in 1 Corinthians, but Psalm 104 just grabbed me this morning. I was working out while reading it and I read it about five times in a row as I just marveled at the […]
Imago Scriptura 80 – Psalm 50 – Big Skies
The last several Psalms (yesterday beginning with Psalm 46 through today) have spoken to me of God’s deep and abiding power. But Psalm 50 today really captured it for me with the opening few verses… The Mighty One, God, the Lord, speaks and summons the […]
Imago Scriptura 74 – Psalm 1-3 – Sanctuary
This was my sanctuary for worship this morning. It is Sunday morning and we are heading from North Dakota back down to South Dakota for several days of camping. My morning started at 4:30am heading to an overlook at the entrance to Teddy Roosevelt National […]
Imago Scriptura 55 – Beautiful
There’s the old cliche that says “beauty is in the eyes of the beholder.” In other words, what is beautiful to one person might not be beautiful to another. We’ve all experienced the truth of that statement. Yesterday’s reading from 2 Chronicles details the building […]
Imago Scriptura 52 – The Color Green
Yesterday’s reading from 1 Chronicles has two offerings of prayer and praise to God by King David. First from 1 Chronicles 16:8-36 and the second from 17:16-27. Both share of David’s experiences of God in his life, his relationship with God both as an individual […]
Imago Scriptura 46 – Different Kingdoms
The reading from 2 Kings today was hard to read. 2 Kings 17 tells the story of what feels like a “final straw” where King Hoshea is deposed by the Assyrians and the residents of the Kingdom of Israel are taken into exile. Verses 7-21 […]
Conspiring
I had the blessing of spending a good chunk of the last two days at the Conspire Cincinnati Gathering. Sounds ominous, doesn’t it? Its not ominous unless you think of small groups of people working on bettering our local communities as ominous. I was so […]
Imago Scriptura 43 – Communion
I know I have posted this picture previously but it captures my experience of worship yesterday and the reading from Luke 22. I took this shot (which I edited a bit because it didn’t come out really clearly when I shot it) while we were […]
