“A picture is worth a thousand words.” There’s quite a bit of truth to that idiom, isn’t there? If you have ever assembled a piece of furniture with a name you cannot pronounce from a Swedish furniture manufacturer, you know it to be true. Paragraphs of well-written prose could not capture the clarity of a well-drawn image of how...

This week we talk about how God instructed His people to build the tabernacle so He could dwell with His people. It’s a great session on God’s desire to be present with the Israelites, and also with us. But there is a theological nuance that we need to be aware of as we lead this session: What precisely do...

The Israelites didn’t always agree with Moses, but he was their leader. And he had been gone far too long—at least for their liking—up on some mountain top with God. So because he was “delayed” in coming down (Ex. 32:1), the people got up and got to work on their own. They asked (pressured?) the next in command, Aaron,...

You would think that something so common to humanity would be understood better. But when it comes to love, it is not. Despite the universal nature of love, it is perhaps one of the greatest mysteries to us. What exactly is love? How do you know you are in love? And why does love even exist anyway? These are...

I don’t know about where you live, but the housing market here in middle Tennessee is still pretty strong. It has slowed some recently with interest rates going up, but it is still a strong market, which means many people are taking the opportunity to sell their homes and move into a new one. I have helped two families...

Most of us don’t know what hunger really is. Oh, we know what it is to be hungry, but we don’t know hunger. We are aware of it, of course, but we have not experienced it. And that might not be a good thing. To me, there is a distinction between being hungry and experiencing hunger. We all get...