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The Elusive Knowledge of Good and Evil
“You won’t really die,” the serpent hissed. “God knows that when you eat it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God. You will know about good and evil.” What the serpent said made sense…maybe Eve was just confused. Maybe she had misunderstood God’s original instructions. The fruit was lovely to look at, and it would make them more like God. Why would God keep this knowledge from them? Surely, eating the fruit was the right thing to do… The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil offered an elusive promise. Forgetting she was already made in God’s image, and thinking she was becoming more like God,…
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Rediscovering Jesus – Rediscovering the Bible (Part 3)
I was five years out of my cult, graduated from secular college, and married to my completely opposite husband, before I started to understand how the Bible was put together. We were at a tiny Bible school in the state of Wyoming and my husband was taking a class on Biblical interpretation. One day as we talked about class, a light bulb turned on and I was filled with questions: The books of the Bible are different genres with different purposes? They were written to unique people? The prophetic books are mostly meant for the nation of Israel and I can’t just apply them to whatever I want? Verses have…
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My Theme Song
I spent the last four days at a wonderful women’s retreat. So, instead of a blog post, I have a song for you. This is my favorite song right now; it’s literally my theme song. 🙂 Yesterday at the conference I was listening to it with headphones down by the lake during quiet time. I didn’t think anyone was around so I was standing there in the warm spring sun, with my eyes shut, my arms raised, silently mouthing the words. It was so beautiful that I listened to it twice. When I opened my eyes, there were two people in a canoe paddling by staring at me. Well that’s…
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Life Is Adventure
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God Does Not Care About Your Jenga Blocks
A couple of weeks ago, I was writing in my journal during my morning “Jesus time”, wrestling through the way we view our relationship with God. “We don’t understand that it’s not about being good and doing the right things…it’s about knowing Jesus. Ha! It’s like we aren’t even playing the same game as You, God. We’re playing Jenga, but You’re playing Hide-n-Seek..” We are playing Jenga, but God is playing Hide-n-Seek I’m so tired of the way performance based thinking has hijacked Christianity! It’s not just people like me, raised in extreme legalism…it’s spread throughout the whole church. There we are, trying to build our Jenga towers, poking out…
