Small Things Are Great

There’s a quiet mistake many people make in the journey of faith. It doesn’t happen loudly and doesn’t come with warning signs. In fact, it often feels like growth—until one day you realize you’ve been holding onto something tightly… but isn’t actually God. At the center of any genuine spiritual journey is this: your focus must remain on the persona of God —not just ideas about Him, not just systems around Him, but God Himself. Who is God? Here it gets a bit uncomfortable, especially for those of us who identify strongly with a particular tradition: God does not belong to any one label. “God” is not a personal name in the way we name people. It’s more like saying king or lord —a title that points to a reality beyond human ownership. So whether someone stands in a church, a mosque, a temple, or under a tree in quiet reflection, the longing underneath is often the same: to find and connect with the One behind it all - God. But along the way, something subtle happens. The things meant to...

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We’ve been on a journey through the Bible, and by God’s help we’ve walked through the first five books—Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. That’s what we call the Pentateuch. Now we are stepping into a new section. If you follow the Hebrew way of arranging Scripture, we are now entering what they call the Prophets . What many of us today call historical books, they saw as prophetic writings, and this section begins with Joshua. These books are divided into two: the former prophets and the latter prophets. Joshua falls under the former prophets. Alongside it you have Judges (with Ruth connected to it), then Samuel and Kings. So Joshua becomes the first book in this new movement and the transition is beautiful. We are coming from laws, commands, regulations—very structured instruction—and suddenly we enter narrative, movement, action and life! The people are no longer just being told what to do; now they are stepping into what God had promised. There is energy here. Th...

A friend texted in and said...  I have questions about God based on my readings of the Old Testament so far: 1. Why did God okay having multiple wives and concubines? Nowhere in the many laws talks about adultery 2. Why was it okay for the Israelites to put their enemies under forced labour? Why was slavery a thing? 3. It was said that if someone killed someone by mistake, they would seek refuge in the city of refuge until the offended party died, lest he avenged his murdered relative. Why was avenging even a thing? Why was it allowed? 4. I have forgotten the 4th one. In response I wrote; 1. Did God approve of multiple wives and concubines? Short answer: No—God did not design or command it. From the beginning, God’s design for marriage was clear: “ Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. ” — Genesis 2:24 One man. One woman. One union. So where did polygamy come from? - Human beings. As societies developed, people...

Thoughts by Kare Sue. Divorce is one of those topics that shows up uninvited. Not every day. Not even regularly. But every now and then, it presses on the mind—quietly, persistently and this week, the question wasn’t just what happens in divorce, but why . Why do people leave each other? Beyond the obvious reasons—infidelity, growing apart, financial strain, even the strange and unexpected like one spouse joining a cult—there remains a deeper question. After everything has happened… why end it? The answer, she concludes, is simple, though not easy: choice . “Someone chose to call it quits. They chose either to not forgive and move on, or to forgive and move on.” That realization shifts the conversation. Divorce is not just something that happens to people—it is something people decide, often in the middle of pain, disappointment, or exhaustion. What does God say about divorce? Her reflections turn to Scripture, beginning with Deuteronomy 24:1–4, where divorce is acknowledged as a huma...

Reflections from our OT journey — with insights from Chosen Kabiru. Reading from Genesis through to Deuteronomy is not just a reading plan—it is an unfolding. Patterns begin to emerge. Decisions begin to carry weight. And quietly, God starts highlighting things you might have easily passed over before. For Chosen Kabiru, one of the most defining moments in this journey did not come from the Torah itself, but from a New Testament reflection in Hebrews 12:16: “Lest there be any fornicator or profane person like Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birthright.” That verse became a lens—a way of re-reading an old story with fresh clarity and from that place came a striking realization: “This story would have been different… because Esau was the one who was meant to be the father of the chosen nation. It should have been the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Esau—not Jacob.” That thought reframes everything. It shifts the focus from Jacob’s strategy to Esau’s posture. The turning point of the...