Bucket Full of Grace

Drawn:  Intimacy with God Intimacy is what we call the experience of really knowing and being known by another person. We frequently use spatial language when describing this experience like closeness or nearness . An intimate friend is someone we feel very close to; they know us at a deep level. If something happens that damages the intimacy with our friend, they feel distant from us. Or a person who doesn’t know us intimately knows us at a surface  level. But of course intimacy is not spatial but relational. We all know what it’s like to be sitting right next to a person and be physically near but we feel distant and we can feel close to a person who is four thousand miles away . What makes us feel intimate with another person? While there are many ingredients to intimacy and each close relationship we have has a different recipe, common to all of them is trust . We cannot be close with a person we don’t trust. Trust is at the heart of intimacy. The more we trust s...

Open up to the Book of Hebrews Chapter 1 Thesis: The Miracle of the Message is that JESUS Himself is the Message of God to your life. Let’s begin with a question.   Do you want to hear God speak?  Have you ever said in a moment of desperation, “O God, if you would only speak! If I could only hear your voice. If you would only talk to me and not be so silent!” I have said those words. And I have found the Lord patient with me and tender in his rebukes. One of the rebukes I have heard is found in the beginning of Hebrews chapter 1. What these verses teach very loudly and plainly is that God is not silent. God is not withdrawn and uncommunicative. Hebrews So I think that Apollos wrote the book of Hebrews, He was really intelligent, well-spoken and educated, he reasoned from the Old Testament expertly and the book doesn’t have the characteristic writing style of word-usage of the Apostle Paul… but it doesn’t matter who wrote the book of Hebrews and I think that’s why we can’t kno...