God has revealed His Nature and Character (Father, Son and Holy Spirit) to us in time, in space, by Word and deed. The Eternal Trinity desires to continue to display the fullness of His Character and Nature through His people. He has given us His Life, His Salvation, and the Power of His Spirit. We are meant not only to know, but to overflow. It’s not just for information or the formulation of dogma that He’s made Himself known! He did so to redeem us, unite us to Himself, fill us with His Presence...to rescue the crown of His creation from sin & death…to display His Glory.
THE FOLLY OF IDOLATRY Martin Luther said that the human heart is an idol factory. The truth is that we were created to know and live by the gracious rule of and in the Presence of God who created us. Our peace, our understanding of meaning and purpose can only be truly grounded in God who created us for that meaning and purpose. The rebellion of Adam and Eve, their decision to do the opposite of what God said would make for life, resulted in spiritual and ultimately physical death. They chose to believe they needed something more than what God had provided. Their doomed attempt to try and live life without reference to God as the ground of meaning and purpose did not make life fuller, but emptied it. They wanted to decide what was good and what was evil without God and the disintegration of human life was the consequence. Rather than living in the Presence of God and by the gracious rule of God all around them, they turned from wholeness to brokenness, from fulfilment to scarc...

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