Here’s the Church, Here’s the Steeple, Open the Door, Here’s all of the People…

When I was a little kid, I remember a game-song my aunts would play with me.  They would put their hands together, palm to palm and say, “Here is a church.” Then they would interlock their fingers (still palm to palm) leaving their thumbs pressed together and they would say, “Here is the steeple.” Then […]

The God Who Sees…

It is easy for us to compare God to our earthly fathers, or think of Him as this big “religious” figure who shakes His finger at us or is a wrathful mean foreboding figure.  He’s not. He is the meet-you-right-where-you-are-at kind of God.  He is the knows-your-thoughts-before-you-think-them kind of God (see Psalm 139).  Our perception […]