Foster and Hicks explain that accountability is the choice to assume full personal responsibility for your actions, thoughts and feelings, and the emphatic refusal to blame others or circumstances for your own unhappiness. ย
Isaiah 32: Shalom
All of us have experienced being in the desert places. Perhaps that is where you are right now. What act of repentance is God calling of you in order to make you ready for the outpouring of Godโs Spirit in your desert place to bring back life?
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Isaiah 1: Let Us Reason Together
though our sins are like scarlet, they shall be like snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool.
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Isaiah 1: Social Justice
Throughout both the Hebrew and Christian Testaments, scripture teaches that social justice should be a natural product of our relationship with God
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1 John 2: Stop Pretending
Gnostics claimed there was no such thing as sin, therefore it was impossible to sin, for it did not exist. There was no point in seeking not to sin, because there was no such thing as โsinโ or โsinningโ in the first place. John strongly contested such thinking.
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Minor Prophets: Jonah, Megaphone of Pain
I have been in the desert when the temperature is 115 degrees and climbing, with a fierce hot wind. It takes about half an hour for these convection oven-like conditions to literally bake the skin and lungs so that a person can hardly breathe, eyes ache and a person can get dangerously dizzy and dehydrated.
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Minor Prophets: Jonah is Disappointed
Without being mindful, it is easy to think about spiritual things through the lens of our cultureโs mindset and worldview. In Jonahโs day, it was culturally and societally supported to hate certain people groups, such as the Assyrians, and to assume God hated them too.
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Minor Prophets: Jonah, ื ึธืึทื nรขcham
When the Hebrew language speaks of God โrepenting,โ the word most often is โnacham,โ referring to inner suffering that needs to be consoled.
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Minor Prophets: Jonah in the Storm
The truth is, it seemed Jonah would rather have died than turn back and sail for Joppa to begin his journey to Nineveh. But, God was not asking Jonah to give his life to the sea in death. God was asking him to give his compassion to the enemies of his people.
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Gospel of John: Choose Life
In Genesis chapter 1, Godโs word divided the light from the darkness. So now, Jesus, the Word and the Light, came into the world and divided those who love the Light from those who embrace the darkness.
