Posts Tagged ‘Rob Bell’

Waiting to Be Seen

Posted: February 14, 2012 in Chapter-a-day
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Genesis 40: — 8.Then Joseph said to them, “Do not interpretations belong to God? Tell me your dreams.” — Joseph is in prison. Ambushed by his brothers, threatened with death, and ultimately sold into the hands of travelers, he was sold into the servitude of a high-ranking military figure in the Egyptian royal guard, near [...]

He lays his head down in an unfamiliar place, and God reveals himself. Jacob awakens, and realizes that though the place is unfamiliar, unremarkable, and otherwise appears desolate, God is already here.

I have a great friend and pastor who once dropped this one on me: Jesus, in his resurrected body, is the most real thing in the universe. (pop). Rob Bell, in his book Velvet Elvis, writes that he is “simply trying to orient myself around living a particular kind of way, the kind of way [...]