More than 4000 years ago, we are told, there was a great civilization in the far east that fell into civil war and began a long collapse into chaos. But out of that chaos God called one particular man and his wife. God told the man to leave his father’s family, his father’s people, his […]
The first book of the bible — Book of Genesis — ends with the story of a young man who was carried away from his home and his family and sold as a slave in a foreign land. He is severely tested, but he remains faithful to his God for several years. And as a […]
What does it mean to be a “centred set” church? An old story goes that a visitor to an Australian ranch noticed the lack of fences. He asked the rancher how he kept his cattle from wandering away. The rancher replied, “Oh, that’s no problem. Out here we dig wells instead of building fences.” In […]
Let me start by asking: how many of us have read the Old Testament from beginning to end? To be quite honest: I don’t think I’ve even done that. But here’s a more important question: how many of us understood what we read? How many of us can say with confidence that we “get” the […]