Vision Clarity is my Habitat
After Cain travels into the land of wandering, the situation gets worse. Humans fill the earth and subdue it with their own wickedness instead of God’s reign. God’s heart is deeply grieved at seeing an earth filled with violence and looked to restart. God identified one righteous man through whom to start over. After the […]
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The first family are now east of Eden and get down to the business of filling the earth. Cain and Abel are born, farmer and rancher, respectively. Each makes an offering to God but Cain’s offering does not find favor with God and he kills Abel over it. The Second sin is a tragic outworking […]
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Why was there a forbidden tree in Eden and why was it in the middle right next to the Tree of Life? If Adam and Eve are given the command to be fruitful and multiply, fill the earth and subdue it then why are still near the middle of the garden in Genesis 3? Where they really expected to leave Eden […]
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How do we process what we read about the Great Commission in each of the gospel in light of each other? 1. Are we to treat each great commission passage like a unique puzzle piece to be fit with the others so that we are able to see the entire picture? 2. Is each gospel […]
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The first command to humanity from God, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it.” Ever noticed the similarity between the Great Commission and the first command? The Great Commission (Matthew’s Version), “Go therefore, and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son and […]
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When it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and the doors of the house where the disciples had met were locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you.” After he said this, he showed them his hands and his side. […]
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Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures, and he said to them, ‘Thus it is written, that the Messiah is to suffer and to raise form the dead on the third day, and that repentance and forgiveness of sins is to be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning in Jerusalem. You […]
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Go therefore and make disciples of all nations baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. -Matthew 28:19 (NRSV) Go and disciple. The Great Commission starts with the proclamation of what is true to God. It is also true to you. Jesus spent time with his disciples […]
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Go into the world and proclaim the good news to all creation. -Mark 16:15 NRSV Go and Proclaim. The Great Commission in Mark reminds us that the Great Commission task starts with words because God is working through us to create a new world. Just as God words in the beginning were the power of […]
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Jerome’s letter to Damascus, Gospels of Lindisfarne, 587 A.D. Jerome’s letter to Bishop Damascus introduces his Latin translation of the four gospels. He discusses the spiritual challenges of his task with words like “new work from the old…pious work, yet perilous presumption…for to judge others is to invite judging.”1 These words apply to every attempt […]
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