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  • Wheel of Fortune

    Be of good courage, and let your heart be strong, all you who hope in YHWH. Psalm 31:25 Hope – What is the justification for hope?  If your worldview rests on the Greek platform, the answer is obvious.  My reason for hope is anchored in the rationality of Man.  In other words, I hope that…

  • Cutting Ties

    And He said, “Take your son, your favored one, Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there” Genesis 22:2 Go – The climax of Abraham’s life comes in the moment when God asks him to cut away his future. This story closes something that began in Chapter 12…

  • Seeing God’s Past

    January 9, 2008  You shall not make for yourself an image  Deuteronomy 5:8 The Idolatry of the Future Image – It’s all connected.  Let me show you how.  Idolatry is the substitution of devotion to something other than God.  Keep that in mind as we look at a story from the life of Moses.  In…

  • God of the Past

    More than 30 years ago, Wolfhart Pannenberg wrote the book that was translated into English as Jesus – God and Man.  On page 230 of that work, Pannenberg makes a suggestion about the relationship between Jesus’ proclamation concerning the true nature of the creation and the end of this world age.  It reads: . ….