“It’s fascinating to recognize some of the Jewish roots within our modern Christian songs, and yet, we’ve been reminded again this week that there is a collective of people who are missing the Jewish roots of Judaism… and, at that right, Christianity.”

“After spending time with my feathered friends, I can’t help but smile in awe and wonder, thinking about God’s Spirit hovering or fluttering.”

“…the church does not know who she is because she does not know who she was.”

“When we work to remove ourselves from the center of Scripture, and shift our focus from me (individual) to we (community), we begin to interact with Scripture as God fully intended for us to…”

“It still fascinates me how so often our children’s storybook Bibles and even our adult devotional books portray Bible stories as if they were make-believe, like any other fairytale or a story that happened just down the road in your average American neighborhood….”

“Declarations of the coming King, Jesus, are sprinkled throughout all of Scripture.”

It is important for us to humble ourselves when we are tempted to believe we “get” what we read in the Bible because even Jesus’ closest disciples needed to be instructed on how to see Him in the Scriptures.”