I recently posted a blog on Cat and Dog Theology.  My cat lives out of a sense of entitlement, or having rights to things.  My dogs live more out of a place of gratitude, where all is gift.  In my life, do I live out of a place of gratitude or entitlement today? In today’s society it is so easy to feel entitled or to feel we have rights to things – to a good job, a family with a couple kids, 2 cars, a house.  You know, the American dream.   Maybe you feel entitled to a life of happiness without pain or suffering.  Tonight, I have been focusing on…

I have been meditating the last few days on the following verses: Romans 8:32: “Since He did not spare even His own Son but gave Him up for us all, won’t He also give us everything else?” John 15:16:   “You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you.” Do I really believe God will give me all things?  As I began to meditate on these verses and reflect on when God has provided or not provided the things I asked for, I realized…

I have recently heard several sermons at @TheLifeChurchDC about sin and the Garden.  Adam and Eve had everything they could ever want – complete freedom!  They were created in God’s image and were given dominion over all that God created.  There was only one rule – not to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.  A couple things are interesting in this story in Genesis.  There is miscommunication between Adam and Eve – when she is tempted by the serpent, she said that they were not to eat from the tree or touch it.  God gave the command to Adam before creating Eve and He never said…