Kinsman-Redeemer – Household Words:

WHEN GOD REDEEMS YOU AND MAKES YOU BEAUTIFUL, DON’T FORGET WHERE YOU COME FROM. Ezekiel 16:4-14.

For some of us, humility is as simple as remembering how your life began. I remember being the hyperactive misfit who could not behave and in some classrooms was ostracized by both teachers and students. No matter what I might achieve in life, I will never forget where I came from—and I will not forgetContinue reading “WHEN GOD REDEEMS YOU AND MAKES YOU BEAUTIFUL, DON’T FORGET WHERE YOU COME FROM. Ezekiel 16:4-14.”

LUST = IDOLATRY. Ezekiel 16.

Over the years, I have heard several news reports about babies that have been found in dumpsters. Someone taking out the trash lifts the heavy lid and hears the muffled cry of a baby. Can you imagine that? The babies were adopted and went on to have good lives—but what an origin story! Imagine knowingContinue reading “LUST = IDOLATRY. Ezekiel 16.”

Kinsman-Redeemer.

You sometimes hear it said that Jesus is our kinsman-redeemer. But what is that? The phrase comes from the book of Ruth. Naomi and her husband and sons left Israel during a famine and moved to Moab. In Moab Naomi lost her husband and both sons. She eventually returned to Israel accompanied only by herContinue reading “Kinsman-Redeemer.”