Hi, I'm Kristi Graham, host of On the Ground with Samaritan's Purse.

On the Ground with Samaritan's Purse brings you stories of how God is working.

And I have the privilege of introducing you to staff, volunteers, and the people we help,

like Eva, a mother of three who fled Ukraine.

I just came off that train with all these women.

I have to say, God, women are so strong, women are warriors.

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During today's conversational back porch theology, we're going to tackle all things

Theophany, which is a form of divine revelation where God's miraculous presence

is made visible and recognizable to mere humans like us.

Some of the most familiar Theophany's and Holy Rit are the flaming Topiary,

through which God affirmed and called a stuttering Moses to lead Israel out of captivity,

as well as the cloud by day and pillar of fire by night that accompanied the Israelites

through the wilderness wanderings, which were heightened forms of natural phenomena

through which became perceptible representations of God's presence with His people.

However, we're going to focus on some really cool, less familiar Theophany's today,

because there's loads of theological significance regarding the nature of our Trinitarian God

to glean from biblical Theophany's and Christophany's. Those are just Theophany's,

which have a human form, but dang y'all, they also have the capacity to spur our faith

and fertilize some old school awe over the fact that our creative redeemer loves us so much,

that he condescends to make himself unmistakable to us. He won't let us miss him.

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