the cube part two

Last week, I described four roads, intersecting near my house. This week, I will explain why it struck me. Throughout the Bible, God describes his Kingdom and his Temple. In Revelation, this ends with the description of a giant cube: "The city was shaped like a cube, because it was just as high as it…

worship

There is the idea that as you die, your life will flash before your eyes. What do you want to fill your life with? What are the most precious things in your life? The images you want to see as your life fades? It made me realize that I love worship. I want more worship…

saved

God's love can save me and you and all of us. Love matters most. Sometimes faithlessness is a choice. I wrote these words in August after a bout with depression. It's interesting, how some problems don't die but appear again and again, in different forms. Depression feels like a pinhole of light shuts, trapping you…

to know God

Reading 1 John, I found this passage irritating: "Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God." That day, someone was visiting that I didn't want to see. Not her, I thought. I don't have to love her, do I? And…

surprise, surprise: the Israelites are stupid

Studying the anger of God.