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Faith • Biblical Reflections

“Let’s Start at the Very Beginning, a Very Good Place to Start”

“Let’s start at the very beginning, a very good place to start…” Julie Andrews sang Rodgers and Hammerstein’s famous line in The Sound of Music. And that’s good advice. Genesis 1 and 2 bear a disproportionate influence on our understanding of our world because they show us the way God made it – before human...

Faith • Biblical Reflections

A Meditation on Excess Productivity: Great Gifts, Stewarded Badly

Katelyn Kuck | 4 min read

Genesis 3: 14-20 describes the curse that befalls creation after Adam and Eve have disobeyed God in the garden. We then hear the stories of their descendants and the story of the Flood before we end up at the tower of Babel in the eleventh chapter. Very quickly, these stories set up the narrative of...

Faith • Liturgical Reflections

Missio Advent: What’s in a Family Tree? (Part 3)

Cameron Barham | 4 min read

During Advent, Missio is concurrently running two series. On Mondays and Wednesdays Cameron Barham, lead pastor of Christ Community Church in Kennesaw, GA provides Advent devotions from the Gospel of Matthew. On Fridays, Drew Masterson of The Washington Institute provides a series of reflections on four films for Advent. And after the deportation to Babylon:...

Faith • Liturgical Reflections

Missio Advent: What’s in a Family Tree? (Part 2)

Cameron Barham | 5 min read

Faith • Liturgical Reflections

Missio Advent: What’s in a Family Tree? (Part 1)

Cameron Barham | 5 min read

Abraham was the father of Isaac, and Isaac the father of Jacob, and Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers, and Judah the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar, and Perez the father of Hezron, and Hezron the father of Ram, and Ram the father of Amminadab, and Amminadab the father of Nashon,...

Faith • Liturgical Reflections

Missio Advent – What’s in a Name?

Cameron Barham | 4 min read

The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. Matthew 1:1 The opening sentence of the Gospel According to Matthew contains an eternity’s worth of theology in the meaning of Jesus’ name and titles. The first clue to the intended weight of this sentence is found in the...

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