Jesus chose diminishment for our flourishing. His mission was divine love at its human best. He epitomized sublime servanthood and elevated downward mobility to the holiest of lifestyles. His determined…
In Jesus’ day, Jews anticipated the arrival of a militant, conquering hero, aka Messiah, to restore the political entity, aka kingdom, to Israel. Jesus, the true Messiah, came to guide…
With the greatest sense of urgency, Mark’s Gospel account was the first writing to introduce the reading world to an extraordinarily average-looking, exceedingly unpretentious, man, yet one who came bearing…
Scripture talks of spiritual blindness, the inability to discern Truth as Jesus presented it. We sing, ‘Open the Eyes of my Heart, Lord’ in acknowledgement of the grandeur of the…
We are the redeemed, the born again, the called-out ones, the forgiven, God’s Beloved, the co-heirs with Christ, the alive forevermore ones. In all this, we say Amen! to those…
Few 3,000-year-old, written records are of any consequence to us in the 21st Century. But God’s Word stands tall, speaks forever Truth, reads like our daily news feeds. ‘A day…
One of the central figures in the life of the early church, and one of the least likely to find himself there, was Saul of Tarsus, known to us as…
Beyond a relationship with Jesus as Lord, beyond adoption into the Beloved, beyond eternal life, beyond forgiveness of sins – all this already too much to comprehend, too good to…
Jesus’ death was the payment of our ransom, redeeming us out of the grip of sin and death. It was the turning point in the war between God and Satan.…
Jesus’ death was the payment of our ransom, redeeming us out of the grip of sin and death. It was the turning point in the war between God and Satan.…