Reflecting the Image began as a simple daily practice of opening Scripture, listening for God’s voice, and writing what I was learning. Over the years that simple discipline grew into more than two thousand reflections.
After a season of silence, the Lord gently called me back. A friend simply said, “I miss reading your posts.” It was enough to remind me that God’s Word still has more to teach me.
These reflections follow a simple pattern: Scripture, Observation, Application, and Prayer (SOAP), inspired years ago by Wayne Cordeiro’s The Divine Mentor. They are not academic essays or finished sermons. They are the record of one disciple learning to listen to the voice of the Good Shepherd.
My prayer is that, as you read, you too will spend time with the only wise God and be transformed into the image of Christ.
Scripture: Amos 4:6 I gave you cleanness of teeth in all your citiesand lack of bread in all your places;yet you did not return to me,says the Lord. (NRSVUE) Observation: God was trying to get the attention of the Israelites. They had not been faithful. What would it take for them to return to the…
Scripture: Joshua 8:30–32 30 Then Joshua built on Mount Ebal an altar to the Lord, the God of Israel, 31 just as Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded the Israelites, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, “an altar of unhewn stones, on which no iron tool has…
Scripture: Joshua 5:10–12 10 While the Israelites were camped in Gilgal, they kept the Passover in the evening on the fourteenth day of the month in the plains of Jericho. 11 On the day after the Passover, on that very day, they ate the produce of the land, unleavened cakes and roasted grain. 12 The…
Daily reflections on Scripture, holiness, and becoming like Christ.
