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Angel Greetings 101

The Wonder in the Watching

Origin Story

Sing Out Loud, Sing Out Strong

A Super-Spreader Event

I Doubt It

The Wonder in the Waiting

Kids Get It

Ponder This

The Glory of the Lord Filled the Tabernacle: Back to Plan A

So All the Work on the Tabernacle . . . Was Completed: The Long and Winding Road of Deliverance

His Face Was Radiant: The Two Letters That Changed Everything

Be Careful . . . Write Down These Words: It's All About Worship

Moses Bowed to the Ground at Once and Worshiped: How Might God Experience Your Worship?

The Lord, the Lord, the Compassionate and Gracious God: On the True Nature of the God of Heaven and Earth

God’s Triumph over Death (Psalm 30)

Now Show Me Your Glory: The Journey from Hiding to Hiddenness

Because I Am Pleased with You and I Know You by Name: Moving from Resignation to Surrender

Now Moses Used to Take a Tent: On Becoming a Tent of Meeting

But I Will Not Go with You: The Seven Worst Words in the Bible

Perhaps I Can Make Atonement for Your Sin: What Sin Really Is

And They Are a Stiff-Necked People: On Loving People Anyway

The Voice of the Lord (Psalm 29)

Moses Was so Long in Coming Down: When People Take Control

BEHOLD, I Have Chosen Bezalel: The Holiness of Art and Artists

So I Will Consecrate: Waking Up to the Presence of God

Make the Tabernacle with Ten Curtains: Why Those Curtains are to Die For!

You Are to Receive the Offering for Me: On the Difference between Fund-Raising and Fund-Receiving

We Will Do Everything the Lord Has Said: Paving the Road to Hell (and Heaven)

The Place Where Perfect Justice and Mercy Meet (Psalm 28)

Little by Little I Will Drive Them Out: Learning the Landscape of Salvation and Deliverance

However, If It Is Not Done Intentionally: The Lord Is in the Details

Make an Altar of Earth: Eight Learnings from the Wilderness So Far

They Trembled with Fear: On Fearing God without Being Afraid of God

You Shall Not: The Heart of the Matter

Honor Your Father and Your Mother: Flipping the Honor Script

The Light of Salvation (Psalm 27)

Remember the Sabbath Day: From Religious Observance to Relationship Revival

And God Spoke All These Words: On Delighting in the Law of God

Then Moses Led the People out of the Camp to Meet with God: The Only Thing that Will Have Mattered

Go to the People and Consecrate Them: The Holiness of God and Casual Religion

They Came to the Desert of Sinai: The Reason for It All

The Work Is Too Heavy for You: Can You Receive Help?

Living in a Righteousness Orientation (Psalm 26)

I, Your Father-in-Law Jethro, Am Coming to You: Monotheism in the Land of Polytheism

Moses Built an Altar: So Will I

As Long as Moses Held Up His Hands: Onward Christian Soldiers

Is the Lord Among Us or Not?: From Ambivalence to Awakening

But the People Were Thirsty: "I Thirst!"

To Be Kept for the Generations to Come: Take That Science!

Holy Spirit Story: Inviting Others into Awakening (with Janet Wehrle)

So the People Rested on the Seventh Day: Finding the Unforced Rhythms of Grace

Some of Them Paid No Attention to Moses: Where Maggots Come From

The Israelites Did as They Were Told: When Enough Is Truly Enough

You Are Not Grumbling against Us, but against the Lord: On the Foible of Relational Triangulation

I Will Rain Down Bread from Heaven: The Wonder of the Wilderness

The Whole Community Grumbled: The Wilderness Pivot from Feelings to Longings

Let Me Not Be Ashamed (Psalm 25)

Twelve Springs and Seventy Palm Trees: How to Take a Real Rest

I Am the Lord Who Heals You: On Health, the Human Body, and the Glory of God

What Are We to Drink? The Journey from Grumbling to Prayer

The Desert of Shur: From the Win to the Wilderness

I Will Sing to the Lord: The Way Is Made by Worship

But the Israelites Walked: When the Red Sea Parts and When It Doesn’t

Holy Spirit Story: (With Susan and Jeff Murithi)

Holy Spirit Story: Exodus 14:14—The Lord Will Fight For You (with Nancy Smith)

Not One of Them Survived: How the Wrath of God Is the Love of God and Vice-Versa

During the Last Watch of the Night: On Staying Awake in the Last Days

The Cloud Brought Darkness to One Side and Light to the Other: The Call to Holy Imagination

Raise Your Staff and Stretch Out Your Hand: A Wake-Up Call for Our Times

The Lord Will Fight For You: The Zero Sum Game of Fear and Faith

All Pharaoh’s Horses and Chariots, Horsemen and Troops: The (often) Protracted Battle of Divine Deliverance

Creator and Lord of History (Psalm 24)

Tell the Israelites to Turn Back: We Need the Mind of Christ to Think the Thoughts of God

By Day . . . in a Pillar of Cloud; and by Night in a Pillar of Fire: Nine Rules of the Road with God

So God Led the People Around by the Desert Road: When God Takes the Long Road

Commemorate This Day: Jesus Is My Passover

It Was a Night of Watching by the Lord: On Creating New Space for Prayer

The Lord Makes a Distinction: On Judgment and Mercy

The Good Shepherd (Psalm 23)

Just as the Lord Had Said: What Does Real Repentance Look Like?

I Will Harden Pharaoh’s Heart—On Sovereignty, Freedom, and the Will of God

I Am the Lord—Learning to Speak the Word of God

Let My People Go! The Decree and the Deliverance

So He May Worship Me . . . The Movement from Penultimate to Ultimate

Now Go; I Will Help You: The Utter Sufficiency of God

The Cross of Christ (Psalm 22)

I AM WHO I AM—Welcome to Ontology 101

I Will Be with You—The Word of All Words of God

From Here I Am to Who Am I?

So Now, Go. Welcome to the Elder Awakening

Take Off Your Shoes . . .

The Bush Was on Fire . . . It Did Not Burn Up

The Final Victory of the Messianic King (Psalm 21)

Between the Far Side of the Wilderness and the Mountain of God

On The Journey from Wasteland to Graceland

How to Get From Wasteland Wandering to Wilderness Walking

The Way Back to Plan A—From Weak Resignation to Deep Surrender

Plan B vs. Plan C and the Fallacy of Lesser Evils

Plan B?