Incoming MDiv student Angela Nevitt Roesler reflects on being mindful in a world of information:

Therefore O man whose soul is immortal, wait to have it's eye opened in the Light, that thou mayst see God and walk with him in the garden as in the beginning ...

John Whitehead - "A Small Treatise ..."

It is a blessing to know and experience the Spirit Jesus manifested bodily and poured into the conscious and conscience of individual people. It is a blessing that consciousness no longer need be anchored in reflections and that people may know…

Isaiah 47 – A lament for Babylon. “She” will be humiliated, no longer be “called sovereign lady of the kingdom” (47:5). The “spells” you have used, the “advisers” you have consulted will be of no use now. “Let them come forward now and save you, these who analyze the heavens, who study the stars and announce month by month what will happen to you next” (47:13).

Isaiah 48 – Yahweh speaks: “Things now past I once revealed long ago, they went out from my mouth and…

Sometimes you just have to blow up the train.  It's drastic action but sometimes momentum needs to be derailed.  It could be your eating habits, your job, your lifestyle, your church.  When I was a youngster my brother and I had a lionel train set and it went around the Christmas tree.  Year after year.  We did buy some switch tracks that changed the loop but it still went around and around.  We added a milk car one year and a cattle car another.  But it still went around and…

Happy New Year to Everyone!

It is almost two years since I undertook to get through the Scriptures - Old and New Testaments - on my blog, getting all my notes and thoughts over the years out so that others could see them. When I finish with Isaiah, I will be done. I am a little anxious that I have no plan to continue with anything else. We'll see. 

Isaiah 45 – This oracle in praise of Cyrus, emperor of the…