College Conference Recap—the Divine Mousetrap
On my high school church retreats, we used to have something called the Cry Chair. The premise of the Cry Chair was simple. All of us tiny, hormonal teenage campers sat in a circle with one chair in the middle of the room. Everybody was invited to sit in the chair and come clean about […]
Enjoying God in His Incarnation
This is the second in a series of five posts about How to Enjoy God, the book we are reading together as a club this break. For more on the book, or to read for yourself, click here. Johanna’s first post is in our archives. Check back each Saturday for another report from our blog team. I think […]
God’s Purpose in Incarnation and Redemption—John 1
II. God’s Purpose in Incarnation and Redemption And the Word became flesh and tabernacled among us (and we beheld His glory, glory as of the only Begotten from the Father), full of grace and reality. —John 1:14 Before God could accomplish His purpose, man fell and became lost in sin. Because God loved man and […]
God’s Purpose in Creation—John 1
I. God’s Purpose in Creation In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God, and the Word was God… all things came into being through Him, and apart from Him not one thing came into being which has come into being. —John 1:1, 3 The Gospel of John begins with the same […]