There are several theories of atonement. What I mean is there are many ways of explaining what it is Jesus accomplished exactly when he died and rose from the grave. Now, for most of my life I’ve only heard one of those: Jesus paid the price for my sins that I could not pay –… 
Posts Tagged ‘genesis’
Towerless Power
Raising A Prosperity Preacher
Gabriella (six) and I are talking through the bible – the major stories – on Tuesday mornings. This morning we were in Genesis 3, what the heading in her bible calls THE FALL. After we read it together and I explained in six year-old-ese what was going on in the story, she had only one…
Lobby Lady
“I just want you to know one thing,” she said. “God elevates some to great positions so that He may use them to humble the wicked.”
“Ok.” I said, confused about what this had to do with the eight blessings I’d just spoken about. She used the word “wicked,” a King James word, so I suspected…
Desire
After Man’s aspirations to trump God’s I.Q. tripped him into mortality, God mercifully spared him and Woman but left them forever changed. Cursed. Man’s work became a tiresome burden and Woman writhed with agony as she pushed life from her body. Those were their yokes to bear alone. But they shared a curse as well;…
Woman
Genesis 2:19 So GOD formed from the dirt of the ground all the animals of the field and all the birds of the air. He brought them to the Man to see what he would name them. Whatever the Man called each living creature, that was its name.
Hippopotamus. Platypus. Rhinoceros.
Orangutan. Elephant. Lemur.
Dog. Cat.…
Listening Good
I’ve been reading all evening in Walter Brueggemann’s commentary on Genesis in preparation for teaching “creation” at IKON tomorrow night. The man’s brilliant but, like most theologians by trade, boring – to me anyway. Something gets lost in a bookcase of theology books that poetry’s snapshots, in spite of all their simplicity and limitations, capture…
About Shaun — Shaun Groves is a communicator who’s known by a lot of titles: Singer/songwriter. Speaker. Blogger. Husband. Daddy. Friend. He feels and thinks deeply and laughs easily. And he’s helping Christians discover what they were saved for, and being a voice for children around the world, desperate to be saved from poverty.
