The English word “repentance” has done considerable damage. When we read it, we think of guilt or behavior change. But the original Greek text uses a word that goes past those limits: metanoia. “Repentance” isn’t wrong exactly — it points to guilt, remorse, a promise to do better. It lives on the surface: a change of…
Our Confused State The Puzzle of Scattered Ideas To whom will he teach knowledge, and to whom will he explain the message? Those who are weaned from the milk, those taken from the breast? For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little….
Why is this question important? Because the answer can help us to better understand HOW to actually “hear” God, to grasp what They are doing, why They are doing it, and address a fundamental problem. God is not the author of confusion. How does He communicate with us to avoid confusion? The answer is simple….
Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. — Psalm 119:105 ESV How do you take that verse? Most of us take it a certain way without noticing we’ve taken it any way at all. It’s worth a slower look — not at the verse itself, but at what…
Understanding is simple enough for a child. Genuinely simple — not simplified, not dumbed down, but the kind of simple that a child walks into naturally and most adults have been trained out of. Two things children have that tend to disappear with age: humility (they don’t already think they know everything) and questions (they…
Children ask questions. Lots of them, one right after another, without embarrassment or apology. They are sponges. They are ferocious about learning. And Jesus points at them and says: this is what the kingdom requires. So — is there value in questions? What a Disciple Actually Is The word disciple carries a lot of religious weight, but…