Archive for the 'thoughts' Category

Deceived

05Mar10

Well, Halim is preparing to teach a sermon on sin this Sunday and I’m preparing to teach a lesson on sin in our Finally Alive class on Sunday.  I guess in preparation for those things, I’ve been doing a lot of sinning this week.
I understand Eve.  I know why she did what she did.  I [...]


Sick Baby Girl

29Jan10

So, Evie has RSV (a type of respiratory infection.)  Halim has done some reading and pretty much every kid will get this by the age of 2; she is 9 months so I guess it’s just her time.  But it is horrible.  I realize it is nothing compared to children who have really terrible lifelong [...]


According to the eye doctor, I am nearly legally blind without my glasses or contacts.  Seriously.  If you were standing a foot in front of me, I would not be able to make out the details of your face.  Enter the miracle of corrective lenses.  Wow.  How unbelievably ridiculous is it that I can put [...]


400 years of silence between the prophet Malachi and Jesus; the Old Testament and the New.  400 years of waiting, hoping, doubting, wailing – wondering if God was really a keeper of promises.  400 years of listening and hearing nothing.  It must have been agonizing for the people of God.
But how much harder was it [...]


Matt gave a sermon two weeks ago at the Stone on how God reveals Himself in Genesis 1 and 2.  In Genesis 1, He reveals Himself as Elohim – all-powerful, all holy; the God that you fear and tremble before.  Then in Genesis 2, He calls Himself Yahweh – the relational God that reveals Himself [...]