There’s a passage in Romans which I’m intrigued to examine through a very particular lens. It’s the one that says sin entered the world through the actions of one man, and that through the actions of another, righteousness became available again to all. The first part I can understand, and the second part I can…
Category: My View
Cross Examination
“My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” Jesus cries out from his anguish, yet incredibly also draws hearers’ attention to the theology of what is taking place. As I ponder the weekend that we remember Jesus’ sacrifice and celebrate his victory over death, I come back to the question that constantly nags at…
Keyed Into God
My keys were found today. I can’t say I, or anyone else, found them. I simply and bewilderingly became aware of them. I was aware that they were lost five days ago. My typical weekend routine is that I place my keys in my purse every Saturday morning, as soon as I emerge from my…
Obedience Baggage
I am learning that, frequently, when the scripture is reading like it is commanding something (and it may be — I’ll come back to that idea shortly), if you watch that obedience experience play out organically in the way God designed, you see it is closer to being a description of an inevitability. “When you…
Water Soluble Expectations
Do you ever find yourself either frozen from meaningful action, or over-exerting because of the task master of Invisible Expectations? By “invisible,” I mean that no one is currently telling or otherwise coercing you to do or not do the thing. You just have this nagging discomfort inside about it, and that discomfort might sound…
It’s An Abomination
This is not about how to simply focus on your own sinful state instead of someone else’s. Nor is it about calling all things good. What I’m trying to convey is the ability to observe and interact from an entirely alternate experience that is unshaken by external reflections of the spiritual war on our planet. I’m referring to Christ-filled hearts that close the gap.
The Bible is Like a Birthday Party?
The surprise party Recently I attended a surprise birthday celebration for a more-experienced young person. I didn’t know most of the people there, because attendees were from every stage of her life, but I saw a remarkable pattern emerge as the microphone was passed around from table to table. Each story, account, and testimony reflected…
New Beginnings and Why We Struggle
New Beginnings Happy 2018! We’ve had a lovely couple of days spending fun quality time with friends and family. It feels like Brian has been home from work with us for a long time, and it’s been heavenly! New beginnings have been on my mind. I have been reading a new chronological Bible that I…
Talking To Your Kids About Sex in the First Ten Years (A Christian Perspective)
I take a break for a time, and suddenly I feel like I return with such a grown topic. My guys still seem little to me, but we have to grow together. We still have much playfulness and “little guy” stuff, but we have to face what’s approaching. As my oldest is entering the pre-teen…
Can We Trust God (and His Grapes)?
Examining God’s Love in Jeremiah I want to share what God put on my heart during my quiet time this morning, as I read Jeremiah 5. It’s really easy to gloss over the Old Testament (OT – the writings before Jesus’ time on Earth) and see an angry, violent God, and to feel totally at a…
S.A.H.M. Hill 