God is putting his world back together, and to do that he's using the very people who broke it.

My "Christianity" was once again just the American religion of work hard, do good, feel good, and maybe God will say, "We good.

A crooked stick can still draw a straight line, and a messed-up dude like me can still write about an awesome God.

Image-bearers always go in or on a temple. And they can't move. They are metal, wood, stone, etc. But in Genesis the images are flesh. A divine mix of spirit, flesh, love, and humanness. And Adam and Eve are placed in the garden, which is God saying loud and clear that from the beginning he wants to flood the earth with his presence. The whole world is his temple.

God’s voice is always calling us out of hiding—that’s how you know it’s God’s voice.

When I think of whisper, I think of tenderness, gentleness, beauty. And that was God's voice. The hard part with whispers, though, is we have to be listening for them. They are just loud enough that only the people listening will hear and those who are distracted won't.