Self-giving Love Every grandiose scenario imagined for the arrival of Messiah was eclipsed by the Father. The poverty and obscurity, the no-name couple, Galileans of all disqualifying things, the lack…
Resilient Joy ‘Just a cradle in the shadow of a cross,’ sings one Gospel song. ‘A man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief,’ prophesies Isaiah. A king born to die.…
Courageous Peacemaking Establishing peace, for Jesus, the Prince of Peace, would always involve struggle and opposition and rejection. Through all this, he was undeterred because he knew that peace was…
Hopeful Waiting As we enter this season, we look around at our world and at ourselves and acknowledge that there is deep darkness, that much is not as it should…