Blogging Through the Seasons

When things are starting to fall apart it is difficult to know what to do. Rehoboam inherited a kingdom that was starting to fall apart and he at least had the thought to ask advisors what to do. Unfortunately, he followed the bad advice. The people of the kingdom...

When I was seven, my parents and grandparents decided to sell their homes in Granada Hills and pool their money to buy a fourplex in Huntington Beach. For many years, my family, with me being the baby of seven, resided in the large front section, Unit A. My Grandpa...

The name “Bathsheba” immediately elicits more questions than answers. Yet, how she appears in the Matthew 1 genealogy of the Lord Jesus already speaks volumes: “she who had been the wife of Uriah.” She is not known for herself, but rather as a patriarch’s appendage, a...

David, the youngest son of Jesse, shows us that God looks at our heart and not our outer appearance (1 Samuel 16:7). When David was anointed, he was young, with many dreams and ambitions, yet he learned to fully trust God and the plans God had for his life. Moreover,...

Jesse, King David’s father, doesn’t seem to get much air time in the written narrative of the Bible. Perhaps we have heard him mentioned in Children’s Sabbath School Classes or in a picture book, yet, his story is rarely told. The grandson of Ruth and Boaz, Jesse...

The season of Advent offers the Christian community an opportunity to reflect on just how God shows up. It is a season of unveiling and unpacking. And just as we get to unpack our incoming gifts, we also get to unpack the gospel, which in-and-of-itself, is a pretty...