Earthquakes, coup d’état, and plague convert citizens into refugees, and homeland into exile, as has happened last week in Haiti and Afghanistan. Against such painful backdrop, the People of God in Jesus Messiah have a song to sing that offers hope from a deeper and wider story. Consider how. The ancient people of God experienced …
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WHY I NEED LENT
“If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me” (Luke 9:23). This urgent invitation of Jesus is the focus of Lent, and the reason I confess my need of it. I need Lent. That time of year when the mind’s eye and the heart’s …
A Modest Proposal for Christ Followers on Inauguration Day
I am writing with our current political circumstances in mind, the day before a new President takes office in the U.S. He will do so in a nation deeply divided over Presidential politics. Many Christ following persons hold extreme opposite views from those of other brothers and sisters in Christ. Here’s how extreme: some feel …
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Jesus Comes for Us–Precisely for All!
The Lord our God loves, chooses, and works with/through a people to right the wrong of their lives and world, whatever, however, whenever. But, the Lord does so, not just for them, but for all, for as many as will … The Lord loves his own, so that he may love all. The Lord …
God as Baby?!
C.S. Lewis famously noted that the greatest miracle of Christianity is not the resurrection but the incarnation. If you can accept that God became a baby, the resurrection should not be a problem. But when you held your first-born baby, or grandchild, or any infant, you probably did not think, “This is how God was!” …