Building Temples and Building Homes. 2 Chronicles 7:1-3.

Pictured: “Topping Out Bear Stearns, New York City,” image copied from https://millersamuel.com/with-a-flag-an-i-beam-and-a-christmas-tree-the-party-is-just-getting-started/ I grew up in a boomtown. During my childhood, Houston was America’s fastest growing city.[1] One day my friends and I might be in a field flipping over scrap wood to find snakes, and a year later it would be a 10-story IRSContinue reading “Building Temples and Building Homes. 2 Chronicles 7:1-3.”

Obedience, Holiness, Glory.

Do you remember Uzzah? He touched the ark of the covenant and died. “Uzzah reached out and took hold of the ark of God, because the oxen stumbled. And the anger of the Lord burned and God struck him down on the spot for his irreverence, and he died” 2 Samuel 6:6-7. Why did heContinue reading “Obedience, Holiness, Glory.”

“Just as the Lord Commanded.” Exodus 40:34

In Exodus 39 and 40, the artisans used their crafts to build the tabernacle. Do you know what the tabernacle is? If the temple is God’s House, the tabernacle is God’s mobile home: it could be moved. The artists and craftsmen obeyed God in EVERY DETAIL. The result: God’s glory. 39:1— “They made … garmentsContinue reading ““Just as the Lord Commanded.” Exodus 40:34″