Part II: Shalom – The Result of God’s Blessing In his excellent volume, “Not the Way it Ought to Be: A Breviary of Sin,” Cornelius Plantinga parts the curtains to give the reader a “backstage” […]

At the spring 2023 NextGen Gathering, we will wrestle with a familiar term: “blessing.” This word is so common that it shouldn’t require much commentary. And yet, as is often the case, we may only […]

In our last post, we hit an amazing crescendo, an intensity of God’s covenant to Abram and generations of faithful followers that involved a faith and a promise. In our final post in this series, […]

In our last post we took a moment to consider the moment when unbelief (e.g. belief in the ANE gods) becomes belief in the One True God. It’s not yet fully formed in Abram’s heart, […]

In our last two stories, we get a glimpse of God’s command to Abram to leave his country and his father’s household and go to a country God will show him. We also teased out […]

“And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.” (Genesis 12:2 ESV)   Read and ponder Genesis 12:2 for […]

Our focus in these next few weeks is on Abraham. We’ll be studying Genesis 12:1-3 and some accompanying scriptures that will give us some knowledge about Abraham and the amazing and enduring blessing.  Before we begin, […]

I was invited by Yvonne Miller and she didn’t have a great explanation of what NextGen was but the invitation was there. Thanks, Yvonne! I wasn’t sure what to expect. The place I was at, […]

Recently as I was at my first “in person” Nextgen conference, I was there to just be. I had not gotten permission to do that in a long time. As I was listening to some […]

Not pleasing Himself but Building up of others Romans 15:1-7 What ways has Christ accepted you? “Therefore welcome one another as Christ has welcomed you, for the glory of God” (vs. 7) Read Romans 15:1-7 […]