Fill in the blank, “God is ______”. How do you describe God? Did you fill in the blank with First John 4:16 “God is love” ? You might have written: God is awesome, God is holy, God is transcendent, mysterious, mighty, merciful, forgiving, slow to anger, abounding in steadfast love, forgiving, creating, renewing, healing or […]
Monthly Archives: August 2026
In Matthew 22, Jesus quotes from Exodus, “God said ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’ Today, as we celebrate our Encore ministries, I have been thinking theologically about this human-centric naming of God. What are the lessons from “the God of our ancestors”? (Exodus 3) Who […]