Shellie and I have a love/hate relationship with that phrase. What is glorious deconstruction¹? It is the process God uses to deconstruct us, to make us empty so that He can fill us up and remake us in His glorious image.
“You’re Going Where?”
Shellie’s dad asked, after she told him we would be moving to Sudan. “Sudan? Sudan? Sudan?” he kept asking, thinking he hadn’t heard her correctly. “They kill people there. Women are beat and raped there… Why would you want to go there?”
We Love the Church
Wooden church tables are heavy. I know, because one fell and broke my toe when I was three years old. This is Shellie, by the way.
God’s Messy Love
It seems God doesn’t mind getting messy…
The Mission of Jesus (Part 1)
What was the mission of Jesus? Why did He come to earth? Why did the people of Nazareth want to throw Jesus off a cliff?
We discover our answers from a passage in the New Testament book of Luke.
The Mission of Jesus (Part 2)
Jesus, the local boy, came to Nazareth as an itinerant rabbi and was given an opportunity to have his say. His audience, full of proud Nazarenes, understood Isaiah 61 to mean foreign neighbors would serve them and make them wealthy. With everyone listening intently Jesus read this familiar and deeply beloved passage. Yet to their shock and amazement he stops reading at the very point when judgment and servitude is pronounced on the Gentiles.