My brother is a true-blue outdoorsman. When he fishes, he’s all in–wearing shorts with lots of pockets for all the tools of the trade, toting huge tackle boxes full of hooks and lures that sparkle in the sun. When he hunts, he’s no different–getting up long before the sun to sit in cold duck blinds,Continue reading “Remain: Dwelling in the Secret Place”
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Remain: God, Our Dwelling Place
Standing on the street in front of our newly purchased lot, my husband and I babbled all the ideas and hopes for our first house. Brick type. Paint color. Carpet thickness. Weeks passed as we watched the slab poured and frame go up. Then walls and a roof. But it was stepping into the finishedContinue reading “Remain: God, Our Dwelling Place”
Remain: Dwelling with God
If I nodded toward a park bench, breathless from our long walk, and said, “let us tarry here a while,” what would you do? a. Push onwardb. Pout, reluctantly handing me your terry-cloth towelc. Pop-a-squat and sit a spell It’s my hope that you would have taken a break with me–because to tarry is toContinue reading “Remain: Dwelling with God”
Inhabit: God Dwells In Us
I’m so curious to know how you’ve reacted to the idea of Jesus tabernacling among us. I’ve tried to imagine what it must have been like for Him to leave His heavenly place and power to take on a tent–human flesh–and live among us. And I can’t. The only way I can reconcile Jesus choosingContinue reading “Inhabit: God Dwells In Us”
Inhabit: God Dwells Among His People
Have you ever held so tightly to a belief that you refused to hear any other idea on the subject? I’ve personally dug my heels in a few times–like the years around age twenty when I thought I knew better than God on most things. I’d been taught the truth, but I no longer listened.Continue reading “Inhabit: God Dwells Among His People”
Inhabit: God Dwells With His People
We’ve been tracing some biblical history on this journey to see what it looks like to dwell, and a key component is the Fall. At one point, we imagined how perfect life was before the Fall–for Adam and Eve to live in a creation with no death or pain or sorrow–in the presence of theirContinue reading “Inhabit: God Dwells With His People”
Inhabit: A Place to Dwell
I’m not sure what I felt, exactly, as I watched the scene through our bus window–a heap of concrete where a house used to be. A home bulldozed by soldiers acting on behalf of their government, ”officially” because the family failed to wait for approval before adding a room. But really because of their ethnicity.Continue reading “Inhabit: A Place to Dwell”
Inhabit: God Dwells in Light
Have you ever stopped to wonder why sunbeams shining through a cloud make us think of heaven? Every. Single. Time. I see the sun’s rays radiating through the clouds, and I imagine heaven breaking in. And, if I let my thoughts move further down that rabbit trail, my mind’s eye sees more light, more shining,Continue reading “Inhabit: God Dwells in Light”
Inhabit: God’s Dwelling Place
It turns out my word of the year, dwell, has a few meanings, so for this series we’ll focus on one of them: inhabit. The Hebrew word most used to mean inhabit is yashab, defined as to sit, remain, or dwell–as in to have one’s abode. Translated as dwell over 400 times in Scripture, yashabContinue reading “Inhabit: God’s Dwelling Place”
This Year I’m Gonna Dwell
Choosing a Word of the Year might be a bit in vogue among Christians. There are, after all, websites created to help you find your word, Instagram posts that encourage your choices, and bloggers (like me) who mention it frequently. It’s true–sometimes we choose a word to keep us free of FOMO–that fear of missingContinue reading “This Year I’m Gonna Dwell”