The God Rodeo

It is all too often the practice among religious folk to try to throw a lasso around God in an effort to make the wildness and wideness of the divine contained just enough to make God somehow comprehensible by our finite minds.  The idea of a lasso around God makes...

People of Good Will

“Then the LORD said, ‘See, I am setting a plumb line in the midst of my people Israel; I (the LORD) will never again pass them by…I (the LORD) will rise against the house of Jeroboam'” Amos 7. 8-9 What does it mean to be a person of “good...

Whose Kingdom Is It, Anyway?

I.  The Plumb Line Our focus this week in Amos (Amos 7:7-13) concerns the use of a particular tool that isn’t commonly used these days: a plumb line.  When we were discussing the passage in the Darkwood Brew planning team meeting this week, someone asked if a plumb...

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