If you click the link HERE, you’ll find a paper I wrote a few years ago for a class on Chronicles. In summary, the paper looks at the role Chronicles plays in moving the people of God along towards God’s ideal of peaceful non-violence seen most fully in Jesus. There…
Last Sunday we focused in on a story from 1 Chronicles 13:13-14. David begins to bring the Ark of the Covenant to Jerusalem. In a hasty attempt to load the ark on a cart pulled by mules, the ark begins to slide off and Uzzah reaches out to steady the…
One way we can be learning and growing together is to share our insights or questions with one another for further discussion. Feel free to comment below about questions or insights you’ve seen as you’ve been reading this week. Let me start: One thing I have underlined in my Bible…
In case you missed it yesterday, we started our series on the Chronicles of the Kings. We’re reading through 1&2 Chronicles over the next couple of months. To help us get an overview of the book. we had a video to give us an idea of some of the major…
Here’s what I found as I flipped through the Christianity Today for Jan./Feb. that just came in the mail. God is good! Even in the mundane – even the boring – passages of Scripture, God’s good news is revealed. Even these lists of difficult names are breathed into by God…
We’re getting ready to kick off our new series on the book(s) of Chronicles. To help us keep an overview of the book in mind, the picture below might remind us of some of the big themes of 1&2 Chronicles. (Hint: If you click on the image below it should…
I’d love to have you read along with us through the books of 1&2 Chronicles over the next two months. You can check back at this blog for further insights into the world of the text that we might not have time for in the Sunday morning sermons. I hope…
Good worship. Welcoming in the stranger. Seeking to build peace among God’s people. I suppose this could be a list of ideals for which we at Spring Creek are striving. However, these are also some of the themes of the books of 1 & 2 Chronicles. Originally one composition, Chronicles…
Many of us have heard the Christmas story many times. We could recite the story from Luke 2 either having heard it time and time again, or from watching reruns of Linus delivering the Christmas story to a frustrated Charlie Brown. We have heard it so often that, for many…
“In the beginning….” If you were going to write a story about God’s activity in the world, could you think of a better way to begin that story than, “In the beginning”? And if you came to the final conclusion of that story, how would you end such…
