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Believing God in Things He Requires of Us

Who is a Believer? To answer that question, we should understand what belief means. True belief in something means we believe it no matter what. It’s always easier to believe sun shines when you see it shining. But…
Sacrificing Isaac: Facing Our Own Difficult Choices

How did Abraham feel as he walked up the mountain, holding that knife in his hand? His young son walked beside him bearing the very wood that Abraham was supposed to burn him on. To say Abraham was afraid is probably an…
Obedience: Abraham Chooses the Great Path

I remember during one of my poetry classes in my last year at college we had to interview our neighbor. My neighbor commented that the pattern he is noticing is that I like familiarity. How true is that. This past weeke…
What Is Your Excuse?

"Who am I? Just a youth, when has that become the excuse?" Bethany Dillon sings those words from her eponymous debut album. She was only fourteen when she released that album in 2004--there is something meaningfully rele…
Genesis 16-20

I wonder if we would laugh too. God comes to Abraham and Sarah, again affirming that they will have a child, and they both laugh! This occurs in both accounts of God foretelling the birth of Isaac, with Abraham laughing…
Genesis 11-15

The Tower, The Covenant and the Priest The Tower of Babel The Tower of Babel story is rather odd. It's a story I've heard since I was a child, and I always thought it was pretty crazy, but reading it now it's just pla…
The Climb: A Journey of Faith

"The Climb", as performed by Miley Cyrus, was one of the previous year's hit songs. The song is simply about how the struggle and obstacles you encounter on the way to reach your dreams is actually essential to them. Y…
Abraham's Sacrifice: Passing or Failing God's Test?

I was talking to my non-Christian friend, and she mentioned that, when she first read the story of Abraham nearly sacrificing his son Isaac, she thought he had failed, rather than passed, God's test. This, to me, is int…
To Be a Son of Abraham

I've been undergoing a time of trial, and I struggle to get and keep my priorities straight. Having grown up inundated in the culture an Asian-American church in the well-to-do suburbs, it is an existential crisis i…
He's Still The God of This City

I was thinking about Abraham the other day and how God took him out to see a night-sky full of lights. These are your children. The children of the promise. Where I live I can't see the stars at night. I see smog an…