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Bible Hints
“It seems to me that part of what the Bible is suggesting to us is that we can look around our everyday lives and say, “Here I am looking out my window at this magnolia tree. That’s not just a beautiful tree, and it’s not just something that was created by God. It actually is telling me something about who God is, because God describes God’s self as a tree in Hosea.” We have this powerful invitation from Scripture that…
Bible
This may sound strange, but when I think about the bible my first image is the photo above. This “painting” hung on the wall in my house when I was a child. The original is a photograph entitled “Grace” by Eric Enstrom. (You can learn more about this famous photo by clicking above.) I think that I memorized every part of the picture. The bowl, the “bible” and the glasses captured my imagination the most. They looked so real. I…
Toward Sunday
On Ramp is our five-week worship series imaginatively exploring central topics in Christian faith. We turn from Religion to Bible this week in worship. We are drawing upon and adapting some of the framework of a series called Animate (Faith) by SparkHouse Publications as we prepare this worship series for our particular context. Outline for On Ramp ▪July 12: Religion (Mark 6.14-29) ▪July 19: Bible (Acts 17.10-12) ▪July 26: God (1 Timothy 6.16, John 1.18, Matthew 6.9, Revelation 4.1-11, Luke 13.34) ▪August…
Searching scripture
“The Bible is a multi-voiced document, it is flawed in its grasp of ultimate things, but within it – as in our own flawed lives – we glimpse a mystery that holds us, always.” ~Rita Nakashima Brock & Rebecca Ann Parker (Proverbs of Ashes p 11) As we continue our series on Hope in Dying and turn to scripture each week may we be mindful of the many ways the mystery of God continues to unfold in and around us –…