Exodus 3:1-15 As Moses interacts with the Burning Bush, he asks, “What is your name?’ The voice of God answers, “I am who I am”. Many have translated this various ways such as “ I am what I am or I will be what I will be (NRSV footnote.) This is the God that does not allow description. A name defines something, such as Adam naming …
Tag: Twinsburg
Sep 21
Jacob’s Crisis of Faith
Genesis 32 Genesis 32 is one of those chapters that I would enjoy having a four-week long discussion group take up. This is a very revealing passage on how each of us can struggle in our spiritual life. The story of Jacob includes miracles and visions. He saw the stairway between heaven and earth, he …
Sep 07
Welcome Back!!
Let the Real Church year begin!! As a Pastor, I have always seen September as the beginning of the church year. I know it is part of the general society when school begins, vacations end, summer is over that we all want to get back to the normal routine. Church needs to be a regular …
Aug 17
And be kind to one another, tenderhearted,forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you.
Ephesians 4:32 Patience and compassion are the foundation of accepting one another within the church. But so often we get caught up in the hyper-judgmentalism and caustic impatience of the society around us, and then we do not enact the tenderheartedness, forgiveness and kindness that must mark our relationships. Really, without these qualities we have no …
