Beneath the juniper…

Anger · Choice · Fear · Lies · Image of God · Mind of Christ · Prayer · Projection · Resurrection · Suffering · Transformation · Trauma · Truth

Kelley Renz 10/30/22 Kelley Renz 10/30/22

Cruel or beautiful?

In what ways are you teaching yourself to turn from the negative to the positive, from the cruel to the beautiful?

Kelley Renz 10/26/22 Kelley Renz 10/26/22

No time for tombs

Watch Him lead the way out of the tomb within where you keep all the doubts, the nagging (but useless) questions, and the fear. We have no time for tombs.

Kelley Renz 10/23/22 Kelley Renz 10/23/22

Within!

If you’re getting mauled by evil, burnt by fire, then what in heaven does the bible mean when it has the audacity to teach “no evil shall befall you?!”

Kelley Renz 10/19/22 Kelley Renz 10/19/22

On miracles

Here’s the thing though: if we teach just this interpretation of “miracle,” then where is God now?

Kelley Renz 10/13/22 Kelley Renz 10/13/22

No need to be “right”

We don’t come to the Bible flippantly. We don’t come to it to condemn our neighbor or put ourselves in the right. And, we don’t come to it without our own baggage — our scars, predispositions, history, and prejudices.

Kelley Renz 10/6/22 Kelley Renz 10/6/22

The god of the public square

The God-of-the-public-square allows us to wear our costumes. The real God invites us to risk shedding those to find out who we really are.

Kelley Renz 9/30/22 Kelley Renz 9/30/22

Wrestle with God!

Oh, how we benefit if we are willing to wrestle with God!

Kelley Renz 9/14/22 Kelley Renz 9/14/22

Dangerous memories

Our memories are dangerous in this evil-soaked world because they reveal the world is far more soaked in God than it is in evil!

Kelley Renz 9/12/22 Kelley Renz 9/12/22

True human power

Real human power is fueled and maintained by truth and vulnerability.

Kelley Renz 8/28/22 Kelley Renz 8/28/22

Our holes of suffering

God’s words don’t come unaccompanied. They empower….

Kelley Renz 8/26/22 Kelley Renz 8/26/22

HERE…

Something happened when Jesus died on that cross, and we who suffer need to spend some time inside it.

Kelley Renz 8/25/22 Kelley Renz 8/25/22

Watch!

Why does God “bend the heavens” (Psalm 18:9) and come down to us? Why does God move toward us, especially when we are wounded? Might it be because those wounds open us to see God in ways we otherwise might not?