YHWH, God spoke to Moses and invited him to come up to Mt. Sinai and meet with Him. The Old Testament language literally records the word of the Lord as “come up and be there”. That phrase seems a bit peculiar. Literally, YHWH said to Moses, “come up here and be fully present”. The stress…

            As I ponder something, I see a tendency towards this in my own life and the lives of many I’ve pastored for the past twenty years.  I’m compelled to bring it to the light.  We seem to have a growing gap between what we know from the Scriptures and what we apply in our…