Author: Cheryl Siemens

Eugene Petereson, professionalizing the call. Jonah is told in parable to provoke insights into various other settings. Parable is something thrown down in a place you don’t expect it and then you start to notice connections.  

John 12:31-32 Now the ruler of the world will be driven out, and there will be judgement and so when I am lifted up , I will draw all people to me. Satan  has no real power, people can judge what is real, God and his kingdom, is what is real. We can trust Jesus.…

The word is near you, in your mouth and in your hear, that is the worth of confidence that we preach, becuase if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead you will be saved. For with heart one believes and thus…

Once my understanding was let down into the bottom of the sea. And there I saw green hills and valleys with appearance of moss strewn with seaweed and gravel.  Then I understood in this way that if a person were there under the wide waters, if he could see God, as God is continually with…

faith exceeds scribes and pharisees vain belief. 1 Corinthians 15:2

  The individual will taken in the Nietzschien sense always abandons community. “History is always communual, and community is always historical.” “See and when you find an absence of community, you will find a broken history.” -Dallas Willard, Veritas Forum, Why Science and Religion Must Conflict

Page 95 “We shall have peace only when men surrender their tools, their minds, and their wills to the Kingdom of God: “Thy will, not mine, be done.”” Page 96 In History, “It certainly seems, the incurable sickness of the world is due, more than to any economic cause, to the total corporate failure of…

Old testament Genesis 1:26 Responsibility with God. To Rule for Good. This is what the outcome of Discipleship is Chapter 20 Your Place in this world. Then God said let us make humankind after our likeness, so that they may have say over the fish, the birds, the cattle and all the earth, and all…

We do not know how to pray as we ought, but that very Spirit intercedes with sighs to deep for words.  Romans 8:26 When I do not know what I want, when I don’t have the capacity to know what is good for me or my neighbour. When I don’t know what to ask God…

To see Jesus. In the conversation with a neighbour. Picking up coffee. In the unexpected challenge. Alone. In the midst. When everyone is more intelligent. And I’m not much. And when everyone applauds. On top of the world. To see Jesus.