On the surface, it was a day like any day. However, what lay beneath was so profoundly significant that it changed the entire world. One day, a husband and wife were enjoying each other’s company. They were tending to their animals and plants together; life was as it had always been. Yet, when they heard the noise of another, they hid and clothed themselves. We might think, “No, duh! What else should they have done?!” But, this would be the first time they ever did this - the

Our world is saturated with claims of love, yet it is also overflowing with acts of selfishness. Like water and oil swirling around one another, the two do not go together. Claims of love and acts of selfishness are contrary to one another. Put this in the context of friendship, you have pain; in the context of marriage, trauma; in the context of religion, hell. While that may sound strong, it aligns directly with God's teaching in Matthew 7:21-23: not all will be received be

If you wanted to be seen by the world, how would you position yourself? You would get on the highest rung of the ladder, stand on the mountain tops, and you would get on the highest roof of the highest building — metaphorically that is. We know that if there are any who catch the eye of the world, it is those who are separated the most by height — status, influence, and recognition. This would be yet another area where God and the world are so polar. While the world focuses o