God over all, when the towers fell it seemed our world changed. We remember where we were when we first heard, when we saw the fearsome sight, when what we might have thought unassailable crumbled to dust. The shock and awe of those scenes haunt us still. Yet, as we draw near to you …
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The Whole Gospel—Vertical AND Horizontal
The Creator and Redeemer God passionately loves the world and all realities it entails past, present and future. The world created supremely good, then subject to futility and corruption through human disobedience, has never escaped God’s majestic and mysterious plans. Plans once unknown and beyond human imagining but then shockingly, powerfully and bodily manifested in …
TERROR, REFUGEES, AND THE MESSIAH WE WELCOME 👣
In December of 2012, Lavone and I were in Bethlehem on what is called Manger Square as the town prepared for its annual lighting of the Christmas tree that marks the official beginning of the Christmas season. The irony of this did not escape us: at or near “ground zero” for the first Advent, are …
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PEACE–WARRING AGAINST WAR
Merry Christmas! Today we celebrate the coming of the Christ-Child, the One foretold by prophets, anticipated by the faithful, and now given by God. He is given as descendant of David, as the Messiah King who sits upon the throne of David, his ancestor and forebear, whose government will have no end. The one who …