The Table Is Still Growing

One of the things I said when I built this space was that a table is not a stage. Nobody performs at a table. You sit down, you bring what you know, you say what you actually think — and the person across from you does the same.

That only works if more than one voice shows up.

Today, another one does.

Cathy Colver Garland — Gracefull Musings

Cathy has been a self-described Bible nerd for as long as she can remember. But don't let the warmth fool you. This is not a cozy devotional writer. This is a woman who spent six months excavating the name El Shaddai and came back with something that makes your English Bible feel like it was written by a committee trying not to upset anyone — because it was.

She asked what El Shaddai actually means. Not "Almighty" — that rendering is fine and blah, and she'll tell you that directly. What she found was something closer to "Out of my mountain of abundance, I am your sufficiency." That's not a footnote. That's a different God than the one most people were handed.

When asked which biblical text is most mishandled by mainstream Christianity, she didn't hesitate: demons. Not metaphorical darkness. Not vague spiritual unease. Actual demonic activity — and the Church's collective shrug in the face of it. She pointed out that Eusebius and Josephus both noted the early church's power over rampant demonic activity as a primary reason Christianity turned the Roman Empire inside out. The church overcame Rome not with power structures or political maneuvering, but with love for the downtrodden and undeniable spiritual authority. Cathy knows that history. And she's concerned about what we've done with it.

She's a consultant, a deliverance minister, co-author of Revelationship, author of the KNOWN devotional, and has an upcoming Deliverance Workbook that will give cessationists something to think about.

Her first piece asks a question most parents have been handed without an answer: "Know your identity in God." What does that actually mean? Unless we know God — not the version we inherited, but the God whose names carry covenant weight — the phrase is meaningless. Cathy plans to walk through the Hebrew names of God, what they reveal about His character, and how to teach them to children in a way that actually lands. That piece has my full attention.

Follow Cathy at gracefullmusings.substack.com and revelationship.net

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