A long time ago in another millennium, I read a book that changed the way I have looked at life across almost five decades. The book is The Compulsive Christian by David Mason, first edition 1969. Our society tends to measure life by what we have or by what we do. Mason reminds that God’s …
Monthly Archives: January 2016
It’s Sunday Again: God who is present (Genesis Seminar #4)
This brief effort of four posts is insufficient. One cannot describe God in four lessons, by focusing on four descriptive words, or by sharing four primary concepts. This is skimming the surface, this is only a beginning. Nonetheless important, because one has to find the beginning point, one has to start somewhere. Genesis. Creating God, …
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It’s Sunday Again: The God who Provides
Who is this God to whom we are introduced in Genesis? Personal God creates for relationship; he calls (unique to Christianity–God seeking his creation); he promises blessings that will restore relationship and recreate and reconstruct a fallen world; he constantly provides for his creation, especially those he chooses and blesses toward fulfilling his purpose. How …
It’s Sunday Again: The promising God wants to bless his creation
God’s great desire in the book of Genesis is to bless his human creation. (Check this out in a concordance, 51 times not all in reference to God.) Much of the second part of Genesis (chap. 12-25) reveals this God of promises who wants to bless his creation. Thus, God promises that Abraham will be …
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It’s Sunday Again: Knowledge PLUS Application
[Note: Please bear with me as I struggle through difficult ideas–it is not easy to wrap our little minds around God!] Last week I tried to introduce the God of Genesis. Point #1–God is personal/relational. God creates human beings in his image. That concept includes capable of relationship–with God and with one another. God is …
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