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Last week, I asked a troubling question: Is your God too small?

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Sometimes the problem is not that we have stopped believing in God.

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There is a line running through the book of Job.

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There is a difference between standing near the edge and going over it.

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It's good to be back!

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The fireworks have faded. The flags have been folded away. So to the firecrackers and the sparklers. The speeches have ended.

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There is something sacred about tables.

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We often think of memory as something passive.

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We all come from somewhere.

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There is a cost to silence.

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Every family has stories.

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There’s a quiet way memory reshapes a story.

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America would rather celebrate freedom as if it arrived the same way for everyone.

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We like to rush to Sunday.

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There are some books of the Bible that people avoid like a cluttered attic.

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Lent invites us to notice what we often rush past.

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I have taught the Book of Revelation several times before.

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When people think about Lent, the first word that often comes to mind is fasting.

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At some point in every life, there comes a moment when we must begin again.

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It’s March already?

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We are living in a moment flooded with fragments.

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Many of us learned to read the Bible in pieces, in fragments.

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Levantine. We hear this word often in Bible study.\nRarely do we stop to ask what it means.

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One of the quiet assumptions many of us inherited about the Bible is this: Africa enters the story late, on the margins, as background scenery rather than sacred ground.\n

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This reflection is part of a January Tell the Whole Story 2025 series exploring what it means to live faithfully without rushing to easy answers.

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This reflection is part of a January Tell the Whole Story 2025 series exploring what it means to live faithfully without rushing to easy answers.

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This reflection is part of a January Tell the Whole Story 2025 series exploring what it means to live faithfully without rushing to easy answers.

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This reflection is part of a January Tell the Whole Story 2025 series exploring what it means to live faithfully without rushing to easy answers.

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New Year’s Eve has a way of slowing us down, even when the world tells us to celebrate loudly.

","url":"https://tellthewholestorywithdralfiewines.org/f/new-year%E2%80%99s-eve-standing-at-the-edge-of-what-was-and-what-will-be","title":"New Year’s Eve: Standing at the Edge of What Was and What Will Be","summary":" New Year’s Eve has a way of slowing us down, even when the world tells us to celebrate loudly.","date_modified":"2025-12-31T16:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://tellthewholestorywithdralfiewines.org/f/christmas-eve-when-the-whole-story-is-still-waiting-to-be-told","html_content":"

Christmas Eve has always felt different to me.\nNot loud like Christmas morning and the excitement of opening presents. \nNot busy like the days leading up to it.

","url":"https://tellthewholestorywithdralfiewines.org/f/christmas-eve-when-the-whole-story-is-still-waiting-to-be-told","title":"Christmas Eve: When the Whole Story is Still Waiting to Be Told","summary":"Christmas Eve has always felt different to me.\nNot loud like Christmas morning and the excitement of opening presents. \nNot busy like the days leading up to it.","date_modified":"2025-12-24T16:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://tellthewholestorywithdralfiewines.org/f/hidden-treasures-what-the-ethiopian-bible-teaches-us-about-faith","html_content":"

Every time we open the Ethiopian Bible, we discover something that feels both ancient and brand new, a treasure hidden in plain sight. These are not “extra” books. They are windows into the faith of believers who lived c...

","url":"https://tellthewholestorywithdralfiewines.org/f/hidden-treasures-what-the-ethiopian-bible-teaches-us-about-faith","title":"Hidden Treasures: What the Ethiopian Bible Teaches Us About Faith","summary":"Every time we open the Ethiopian Bible, we discover something that feels both ancient and brand new, a treasure hidden in plain sight. These are not “extra” books. They are windows into the faith of believers who lived c...","date_modified":"2025-12-17T16:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://tellthewholestorywithdralfiewines.org/f/the-holiday-season-and-the-gifts-it-brings","html_content":"

I’m enjoying the holiday season. I hope you are too!

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We are master storytellers, especially when it comes to our own lives. We know how to polish the parts that shine and tuck away the pieces that still ache. We share the chapters that make us look strong and leave out the...

","url":"https://tellthewholestorywithdralfiewines.org/f/telling-the-truth-about-our-own-stories","title":"Telling the Truth About Our Own Stories","summary":"We are master storytellers, especially when it comes to our own lives. We know how to polish the parts that shine and tuck away the pieces that still ache. We share the chapters that make us look strong and leave out the...","date_modified":"2025-12-10T16:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://tellthewholestorywithdralfiewines.org/f/why-imagination-matters-when-we-read-the-bible","html_content":"

Most of us learned to read the Bible like a history book, names, dates, facts, stories, then close the pages and move on. However, scripture has always asked more of us. It invites us to wonder. To listen between the lin...

","url":"https://tellthewholestorywithdralfiewines.org/f/why-imagination-matters-when-we-read-the-bible","title":"Why Imagination Matters When We Read the Bible","summary":"Most of us learned to read the Bible like a history book, names, dates, facts, stories, then close the pages and move on. However, scripture has always asked more of us. It invites us to wonder. To listen between the lin...","date_modified":"2025-12-03T16:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://tellthewholestorywithdralfiewines.org/f/communal-reading-we-are-formed-together-by-the-word","html_content":"

We often picture Bible reading as a solitary act, one person, one book, one quiet moment with God. Yes, those moments matter. However, before Scripture ever landed on our nightstands and Bible apps, it lived in community...

","url":"https://tellthewholestorywithdralfiewines.org/f/communal-reading-we-are-formed-together-by-the-word","title":"The Power of Communal Reading: We Are Formed Together by the Word","summary":"We often picture Bible reading as a solitary act, one person, one book, one quiet moment with God. Yes, those moments matter. However, before Scripture ever landed on our nightstands and Bible apps, it lived in community...","date_modified":"2025-11-26T16:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://tellthewholestorywithdralfiewines.org/f/beyond-the-familiar-why-the-ethiopian-bible-still-speaks","html_content":"

When we first open the pages of the Ethiopian Bible, something remarkable happens, we begin to see that the Word of God was never meant to fit neatly within the limits of any one canon, culture, or continent.

","url":"https://tellthewholestorywithdralfiewines.org/f/beyond-the-familiar-why-the-ethiopian-bible-still-speaks","title":"Beyond the Familiar: Why the Ethiopian Bible Still Speaks","summary":" When we first open the pages of the Ethiopian Bible, something remarkable happens, we begin to see that the Word of God was never meant to fit neatly within the limits of any one canon, culture, or continent.","date_modified":"2025-11-12T16:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://tellthewholestorywithdralfiewines.org/f/rediscover-the-bible-you-thought-you-knew-the-ethiopian-bible","html_content":"

Most of us grew up reading the Bible from a single perspective, the version our church or denomination handed down to us. Many of us assumed that “the Bible” meant the sixty-six books between Genesis and Revelation, neat...

","url":"https://tellthewholestorywithdralfiewines.org/f/rediscover-the-bible-you-thought-you-knew-the-ethiopian-bible","title":"Rediscover the Bible You Thought You Knew: The Ethiopian Bible","summary":"Most of us grew up reading the Bible from a single perspective, the version our church or denomination handed down to us. Many of us assumed that “the Bible” meant the sixty-six books between Genesis and Revelation, neat...","date_modified":"2025-11-07T18:05:37Z"},{"id":"https://tellthewholestorywithdralfiewines.org/f/bible-remix---introduction-to-the-ethiopian-bible","html_content":"

The Bible You Thought You Knew… and the One You’ve Never Met

","url":"https://tellthewholestorywithdralfiewines.org/f/bible-remix---introduction-to-the-ethiopian-bible","title":"Bible Remix - Introduction to the Ethiopian Bible","summary":"The Bible You Thought You Knew… and the One You’ve Never Met","date_modified":"2025-10-21T21:28:06Z"},{"id":"https://tellthewholestorywithdralfiewines.org/f/when-silence-isnt-golden","html_content":"

There are times when silence is sacred, when stillness centers us, when quiet restores our souls, when we pause long enough to hear the gentle whisper of God. Yet, there are also times when silence is not golden. That’s ...

","url":"https://tellthewholestorywithdralfiewines.org/f/when-silence-isnt-golden","title":"When Silence Isn't Golden","summary":"There are times when silence is sacred, when stillness centers us, when quiet restores our souls, when we pause long enough to hear the gentle whisper of God. Yet, there are also times when silence is not golden. That’s ...","date_modified":"2025-10-16T02:46:45Z"},{"id":"https://tellthewholestorywithdralfiewines.org/f/ethiopian-canon-to-the-slave-bible-how-the-good-news-got-smaller","html_content":"

Most of us assume the Bible has always been the same, same books, same length, same message.

","url":"https://tellthewholestorywithdralfiewines.org/f/ethiopian-canon-to-the-slave-bible-how-the-good-news-got-smaller","title":"Ethiopian Canon to the Slave Bible: How the Good News Got Smaller","summary":"Most of us assume the Bible has always been the same, same books, same length, same message.","date_modified":"2025-10-08T15:12:10Z"},{"id":"https://tellthewholestorywithdralfiewines.org/f/christian-life-journal----when-power-masquerades-as-faith","html_content":"

Christian Life Journal: When Power Masquerades as Faith

","url":"https://tellthewholestorywithdralfiewines.org/f/christian-life-journal----when-power-masquerades-as-faith","title":"Christian Life Journal -- When Power Masquerades as Faith ","summary":"Christian Life Journal: When Power Masquerades as Faith","date_modified":"2025-10-01T16:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://tellthewholestorywithdralfiewines.org/f/tell-the-whole-story","html_content":"

Welcome to Tell the Whole Story

","url":"https://tellthewholestorywithdralfiewines.org/f/tell-the-whole-story","title":"Tell the Whole Story -- Welcome!","summary":"Welcome to Tell the Whole Story","date_modified":"2025-09-18T03:54:39Z"}]}