At the risk of adding to all of the usual hoopla surrounding the New Year, new beginnings, and New Year's Resolutions, the Bible has a lot to tell about God and the newness of things. The newness that comes from God is unlike anything else when it comes to a fresh start. So, I thought, “What better time to take a dig into God and newness than the turning of the year?” SHOVEL TIME! I encourage you - as you have time - to actually open each of these scriptures in your Bib
A Return to Scripture, Reality, and Reverent Unknowing As I put together these blog pieces, you all know I love including lots of images. It's one of my really fun things about doing this; images not only convey information, but they break up the monotony of print, and they can also be soothing. What I have found really perplexing, however, is some of the many images I see where people try to depict what God looks like. Take this one, for example: "I wish I was twenty year
“Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.” — James 1:17 Today is the day after Christmas, December 26 , Boxing Day in the UK (woohoo!) and a day I like to enjoy quietly, nestled in with family and my gifts, trying them out, reading them, shutting out the normal events of routine life. I think that’s fairly typical for lots of us on this day “after Christmas!” T
