The Story of Desire – 06: When Desire Takes Flesh
Act IV – God’s Desire Walks Onto the Stage The lights dim. The prophets’ voices fade into memory. The stage […]
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The Story of Desire – 05: Desire and Lure
A Note on Approach In this article and the next, I engage the Prophets as an ancient prophetic play (don’t
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The Story of Desire – Sidebar 04.9: Primer on the Prophets
An Alternative Way to Read the Prophets Reading the Prophets in the Bible can be difficult. One of the challenges
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The Story of Desire – 04: God Desires People
And Attracts Them When They’re Not Looking Genesis 12:1–9; Exodus 2:23–25; Deuteronomy 7:7–8 A Counter-Cultural Beginning In this series, I
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The Story of Desire – 03: Desire Gone Wild
When Want Outgrows Wisdom (Genesis 6-11) Previously we explored how rightly directed desire distorts and becomes a personal problem. But
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The Story of Desire – 02: Distorted Desire
When Desire Drifts Off Course Setting the Stage In Article 1, “Birth of Desire,” we explore God’s take on rightly
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The Story of Desire – 01: The Birth of Desire
From Instinct to Intention If early humans functioned from instinctive desire for survival, Genesis 1-2 introduces something far more profound:
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The Story of Desire – Intro 2: Before the Garden
Introduction: Part 2 I take an unusual approach in this Story of Desire. Christians often begin conversations about desire in
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The Story of Desire – Intro 1: Hearing God Before Genesis
Introduction Part 1 Christians approach Genesis in different ways. Some read Genesis as literal history while others read it as
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An Invitation to the Story of Desire
Most of us live with a quiet assumption about desire: If I can just figure out what I want and