by Barry Creamer | Dec 25, 2024 | Devotionals
A veil prevents those who visit every other part of the Temple from entering its holiest space, a chamber in which enormous golden statues of cherubs join wall to wing to wall implying God’s holiness. “The cherubim stood on their feet, facing the nave. And he made the...
by Daisy Reynolds | May 15, 2024
Barry covers Psalm 74 where we have significant grief coupled with significant hope. As you might imagine, we bring the grief to this equation and God the hope. We are also introduced to this strange truth: the wall that separates us from harm can be the very place...
by Daisy Reynolds | Apr 24, 2024
Barry invites us to a poignant moment between David and Solomon, when the man after God’s heart passes the kingdom to his son. His number one reminder is to follow God through obeying his law, and what that law centers on is perhaps a little surprising. ...
by Barry Creamer | Dec 14, 2022 | Devotionals
The temple provides setting for all 3 opening accounts in Luke’s gospel—John the Baptist’s birth, Jesus’ birth, and young Jesus’ return to Jerusalem without his parents. In the temple, Gabriel announces John’s coming birth to Zechariah, Zechariah and Elisabeth name...
by Daisy Reynolds | Dec 22, 2021
The good news of Christmas Day sweeps through the countryside and temple, past and present, and brings with it a promise as old as our wildest dreams—Emmanuel. Scriptures: Genesis 12:1-3 Ruth 1-2 2 Chronicles 3:10-17 Luke 1:76-79, 2:4-14,...
