Author Archives: Laura

About Laura

My name is Laura and I am on a journey, pondering the implications of God's glorious design of humanity and integrating sundry aspects of this design into a description of what it means to be the new humanity.

Secure on Every Side

This post is a Musing.  Musings are the first tiny bits of understanding made visible and public. Key Idea: God, our life-giver, deliverer, and refuge, remains for us and we toward him; he keeps safe all who trust and abide … Continue reading

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Loved Toward Glory

Jesus’s incarnation and salvational act of love mature Trusters into their identity as a Christ-centered community. Their identity as persons in relationship is lived as a community of self-giving servants, declaring and embodying God’s multivariate and singular glory. Their life … Continue reading

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Equipped and Formed

Key Idea: God’s gifts of individualized and contextualized graces to Trusters form them as one family of disciples who reflect him in mutuality, unity, and diversity.  God gives individualized and contextualized graces to all Trusters. These graces equip them with all … Continue reading

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Love the Covenant Keeper

Key Idea: The absolute covenant loyalty of our covenant-making God trains Trusters toward covenant loyalty through truth and consequences and draws them toward God in love through grace and mercy. God is absolutely loyal to every covenant he makes, for … Continue reading

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Temple and Family

Key Idea: God’s eternal presence in and among the Community of Trusters forms them as his valued place of worship, and his presence with and toward them forms them as a joyful family of serving Siblings. God is with his … Continue reading

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