“These words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.” — Deuteronomy 6:6–7 Into the Word Look at… Continue reading When the Home Becomes a Church
The Father Who Lost a Son
He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? — Romans 8:32 In loving memory of a precious young life, and in prayer for his grieving family. Into the Word Yesterday, a two-year-old boy from a missionary… Continue reading The Father Who Lost a Son
The Land I Will Show You
Now the Lord said to Abram, ‘Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. — Genesis 12:1 Into the Word Look closely at the tense. The land that I will show you. Not a land already surveyed, not a place Abram had visited and… Continue reading The Land I Will Show You
The Sentence Adam Never Said
The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree, and I ate. —Genesis 3:12 Into the Word Read the sentence slowly and watch where it travels. It starts with the woman. It ends with I ate, which is the only honest clause in it. But the middle is… Continue reading The Sentence Adam Never Said
The Root We Cannot See
But the LORD God called to the man and said to him, ‘Where are you?’— Genesis 3:9 Into the Word The serpent’s offer was not crude. It was almost reasonable. “You will not surely die” (Genesis 3:4), he said, and in one sense he was right. Adam lived to be nine hundred and thirty (Genesis… Continue reading The Root We Cannot See
Why Temptation Starts With a Question
Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?” — Genesis 3:1 Into the Word One command had been given in the garden. Eat freely from… Continue reading Why Temptation Starts With a Question
Dust That Breathes
Then the LORD God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature. — Genesis 2:7 Into the Word Through the whole first chapter of Genesis, God speaks and creation answers. “Let the earth bring forth living creatures” (Genesis 1:24),… Continue reading Dust That Breathes
Everything Else Is the Strap
And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. — Genesis 1:31 Into the Word Nothing names its own purpose. A cup never decided to hold water. Someone was thirsty, shaped clay around that thirst, and the purpose existed before the cup did. This is why the question of what… Continue reading Everything Else Is the Strap
Do You Love Me?
“Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep.”— John 21:17 Into the Word This happens after the resurrection. The disciples have gone back to Galilee, back to their boats and nets, as if trying to return to something familiar. Then Jesus appears on the shore. John… Continue reading Do You Love Me?
A Foolish Woman’s Act
Truly, I say to you, wherever this gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will also be told in memory of her. — Matthew 26:13 Into the Word Nard. Pure spikenard, imported from the Himalayan highlands of northern India, carried overland through trade routes that made it among the most expensive… Continue reading A Foolish Woman’s Act