“…and the LORD remembered her.” – 1 Samuel 1:19 He Remembered Her Hannah is barren. She has no – and can have no – children. This loss is the ache of her waking life and a burden she’s carried for many years. In 1 Samuel 1:15 we read that Hannah took this pain and […]

  “One thing I have asked of the LORD, and that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in His temple.” – Psalm 27:4   Wrapping Up Well, we’ve arrived at

  “One thing I have asked of the LORD, and that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in His temple.” – Psalm 27:4   Over the last five posts we’ve

  “One thing I have asked of the LORD, and that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in His temple.” – Psalm 27:4   The Four Spheres of Beauty For

  “One thing I have asked of the LORD, and that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in His temple.” – Psalm 27:4   The First Two “Spheres” So far

  “One thing I have asked of the LORD, and that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in His temple.” – Psalm 27:4   Where We’ve Been In the previous

“One thing I have asked of the LORD, and that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in His temple.” – Psalm 27:4   Beauty is Relational In the last post

    “One thing I have asked of the LORD, and that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in His temple.” – Psalm 27:4   The Centrality of Seeing Beauty

“No one who keeps on sinning has either seen Him or known Him.” – 1 John 3:6 The Verse Explained These are clear and soul-piercing words. No one who continues in unrepentant, un-fought sin has seen or known God in Christ…. Now, I say these words are clear, but why do I qualify “sin” by

“…the time is coming to gather all nations and tongues. And they shall come and shall see my glory, and I will set a sig among them. And from them I will send survivors to the nations…to the coastlands far away, that have not heard my fame or seen my glory. And they shall declare

“If I wash myself with snow and cleanse my hands with lye, yet you will plunge me into a pit…There is no arbiter between us, who might lay his hand on us both.” – Job 9:30-31,33 There is some question as to whether Job is addressing God in the first part of this quotation or his

    “And beware lest you raise your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, al the host of heaven, you be drawn away and bow down to them and serve them…” – Deuteronomy 4:19 “Lift up your eyes on high and see: who created these? He

  “…no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him. Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” – Matthew 11:27-28   How Do We Know God? How can a creature know its creator? How can the finite

    “…Christ loved the Church and gave Himself up for her, that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, so that He might present the Church to Himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.”

    “Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation – if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good.” – 1 Peter 2:2-3   The Object, The Call, The Motive In these verses, God is commanding our hearts to want something. That is

  “O God, insolent men have risen up against me; a band of ruthless men seeks my life, and they do not set you before them. But you, O Lord, are a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness. Turn to me and be gracious to me…” –

Is Jesus God? Almost everyone wants to say something good about Jesus. Muslims honor Him as a prophet, Jews will call Him a good teacher, many Eastern religions believe Him to have been a kind and wise man. Mormons and Jehovah’s Witnesses believe Him to be a creature of unparalleled power and authority, the average

  “‘…continually all the day my name is despised. Therefore, my people shall know my name. Therefore in that day they shall know that it is I who speak; here am I.’” “How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace, who brings good news of happiness,

    “…on the day of his wedding, on the day of the gladness of his heart.” – Song of Solomon 3:11   Weddings as Parables The wedding day is to be the “day of the gladness” of the groom’s heart. It is the day that, by God’s design, his heart should rejoice in his wife….the

“If it is my will that he remain until I come, what is that to you? You follow me!” – John 21:22   The One and the Many Christianity, unlike any other religion, is both communal and individual, both solitary and collective. It is right to say that Jesus died for the Church (that is,