The New Free ThinkersAaron sighed loudly as he looked up the mountainside to see the same rocks and scattered foliage as the day before. No sign of Moses. Not for weeks. He could hear the more vocal dissenters approaching, but he didn’t turn around. They wanted the same thing as yesterday: a new symbol, a new direction. And [...]
“Hear ye, Hear ye!” The words of the king’s decree filled Mordecai’s ears. The king’s servants were looking for suitable young young women to go into the king’s house. Instantly he thought of the fair cousin he had taken in as a daughter. Something was driving him to take a leap and offer her to [...]
“Arise, anoint him, for this is he.” These are the words, spoken by God to Samuel, that singled out David for Kingship. An anointing, a calling, a ministry: often I have thought of these as a place where one arrives sometime in the future. To a certain extent, this is true. However, I believe there [...]
It’s Monday morning. The alarm goes off, and you groan in disgust. You wonder why Mondays are always the hardest. After pushing the snooze button twelve times you throw yourself out of bed, already expecting the day to be slow and agonizing. Sound familiar? What would happen if Monday mornings weren’t like that? What if [...]