So, last night I was up until the end of that crazy World Series game 7. I didn’t have a huge rooting interest in either team but the game was too good to turn off. I definitely would have kicked myself if I had gone […]
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Imago Scriptura 101 – Isaiah 9 -Hope
So often this passage from Isaiah 9 is read in connection with Advent and Christmas – the looking ahead to the coming Messiah, but I heard this passage in a different way this morning… The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; […]
Imago Scriptura 87 – Psalms 97-99 – Looking Up
Yesterday’s readings from Psalms 97-99 are Psalms that speak to the mighty power of God. They speak of righteousness, fire, lightning, mountains melting like wax, glory, powerful hands and arms, the seas rejoicing for God, nations trembling before God, and the list could go on. […]
Imago Scriptura 85 – Romans 12:9-21 – How not What
Today is a combination of different pieces that came together to really speak to me today. First came these words from Romans 12:9-21 – which can basically stand on their own without any commentary…some of the most powerful, challenging, convicting, beautiful words in Scripture… Let […]
Imago Scriptura 82 – Psalm 71 and Romans 8 – Refuge
It doesn’t matter our age but we always have places of refuge. Places to go when things seem out of control or seem scary or we are hurting. For me it has been places both physical and mental. At various times, my refuge is my […]
Imago Scriptura 69 – Job 19:25-27 – Glimpses
In the midst of the dialogues between Job and his friends and in the midst of the “piling on” that I wrote about, we come to probably the most well known of the passages in Job. After all, it forms a significant part of Handel’s […]
Imago Scriptura 60 – Choice
Today was a day of struggle with the Scripture passages, especially in light of the shootings in Orlando yesterday. The horrificness of what took place has stayed with me all day today (side note – I also kept getting this message throughout the day about […]
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 38 – Fallen
As I wrote yesterday, Luke 15 is one of my favorite chapters in all of Scripture. I have gone back to this chapter time after time, but especially to the story today beginning in verse 11 – the Parable of the Prodigal Son, the Lost […]
Imago Scriptura 26 – New
I shared with some friends the other day that it feels like the “Spring Light Switch” just got turned on this week. All of a sudden, its like the grass has gotten green. Flowers are blooming, birds are returning. I even cleaned out the garage […]
Imago Scriptura 21 – Broken Community
I am reading a new book called “The Blue Parakeet” by Scot McKnight (same author of the Jesus Creed which I wrote about previously). Its a book about how to read the Bible. One of the points he had made thus far is that much […]
Imago Scriptura 08 – Gathered
Several times in Genesis so far there has been a phrase that I think is just a beautiful phrase that we do not use much any longer. When Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob each die in Genesis (I’m in the middle of the telling of Jacob’s […]
