A Taste of Grace with Bruce Green

Last week part of the fence in our back yard was taken down. Before that, it had formed an L-shaped corner with a longer section of fence. There was a wooden pallet leaning in that corner with one of those wire plant baskets perched on top of the pallet. As you’ve probably figured out, itContinue reading “Oneness With God”

Coming Apart At The “Seems”

Joshua 22 contains the first of three farewell speeches Joshua makes to Israel (Dallaire). He’s addressing the 2 ½ tribes who are to take up residence on the eastern side of the Jordan—away from the rest of Israel. If you remember the story, these people had decided during the time of Moses that they wantedContinue reading “Coming Apart At The “Seems””

Be Warned And Live Wisely

The man who had all he wanted (2 Samuel 12:7-8), decided he wanted something he couldn’t have. This says something profound about the deceitful nature of both sin and the human heart (Hebrews 3:13; Jeremiah 17:9). After all, David was no spiritual slacker. He fought giants and composed psalms. He survived being pursued by King Saul and his 3,ooo troops—his conscience notContinue reading “Be Warned And Live Wisely”

Barking At God

We had some minor roof repair work that needed to be done courtesy of a recent storm. When I got up on the roof and started working, I could see over the fence in our back yard and into our neighbor’s yard. Of course, I could also be seen, and looking at me and barking loudly, wasContinue reading “Barking At God”

Back To The Garden (2)

5. God sent Jesus to redeem and restore what was lost. Again, we need to see beyond the center of the picture to the edges. This means we don’t narrow or limit the mission of Christ. It was to reconcile man to God, but there was more. Colossians 1:15 speaks of Him reconciling “all things, whether things on earth orContinue reading “Back To The Garden (2)”

Back To The Garden (1)

One of the marks of the inspiration of the Scripture is that even though it consists of sixty-six different books (some quite different), written by approximately forty people, over a period of close to two thousand year years, it is not many stories, but one story. Despite its incredible diversity, there is a transcendent unity thatContinue reading “Back To The Garden (1)”

A Patch Of Sky, A Headful Of Hair, And The Birth Of Jesus

On April of 1990, the crew of the space shuttle Discovery launched a twelve-ton telescope into orbit. It was named after the astronomer, Edwin Hubble. Since it operates beyond the distortion of earth’s atmosphere, it has enabled scientists to look at the universe in a whole new manner. What they have seen is staggering. FromContinue reading “A Patch Of Sky, A Headful Of Hair, And The Birth Of Jesus”

A Roman Cross And A Jewish Carpenter (2)

If you take this political/religious template and lay it over the New Testament, it opens another dimension of understanding. Jesus’ birth becomes a political event. He was born to overthrow Rome. Not in the civil sense of occupying an earthly throne, but in the sense that He was to be everything Rome was pretending to be.Continue reading “A Roman Cross And A Jewish Carpenter (2)”

A Roman Cross And A Jewish Carpenter (1)

We’re accustomed to thinking about the gospel in terms of the conflict and conquering experienced by Jesus. Whether His opponent was Satan, death, or sin, Christ met with and triumphed over them all. We’ve traveled down the paths of Scripture that develop these truths many times and have benefitted greatly from the journey. But thereContinue reading “A Roman Cross And A Jewish Carpenter (1)”