Not All That
There are several stories in the Bible that stop me cold. They leave me feel uneasy. From my limited human perspective they seem unfair, and all I can do when I read them is to reaffirm my conviction that God’s…
Minus the Manifest Presence of God
One of my favorite places to go, when I visit Israel, is Shiloh. It’s where the Tabernacle and the Ark of the Covenant rested for the first 360 years of Israel’s occupation of the Promised Land. The Ark of the…
Why A People?
From the moment God called Abram to follow Him, out of the desert of Haran to the land of promise, God's intention was to have for himself a people. Specifically, God told Abram, "I will make of you a great…