To judge by the current content of our media, the hope of the world is that we destroy our perceived enemies, whether they be our own politicians or given sides in European or Near-Eastern wars. It’s us against them, winner take all—a fallen world view that has been inflicting suffering since Cain murdered Abel. A more Heavenly […]
. . . Matthew points to three divisions in the story: Fourteen generations from Abraham to David tell the story of a God unlike any known in the pagan world. This is a God known not by his demand for child sacrifice, not by sex rituals, not by someone’s ability to enslave others, not by […]
. . . The genealogy from Abraham to David is a story of God’s surprising grace to one marginalized person after another. We don’t get far into the generations from Abraham to Jesus before our attention is called to the names of four remarkable women. Their mention in this list is not a small matter. […]
To read this blog click here: Good News 2.5 Caring About this series of reflections . . . in his months of silence, Zechariah noticed what God had been saying all along. God works in power to deliver his people out of fear and shame, out of sin and hate. God works in grace to […]
To read this post click here: Good News 2.3 Important About this series of reflections . . . Mary was upset and confused by this messenger. She wondered what was really going on. But the messenger said, “Mary, you can stop fearing. With God you find grace.” God is not the kind of authority who […]
To read this post click here: Good News 1.2 John 1 About this series of reflections First, the Meaning already was. And Meaning was inseparable from God, who already was. And Meaning was this God who already was. Meaning is a Person, and He was inseparable from God from the first. Everything was made through […]
To read click here: Trouble with Grace part 1 Whenever I talk about grace, it seems, someone is sure to get rattled by the idea. Some people think that grace means lawlessness–a world of anarchy in which there is no justice and evil runs rampant. In a world as messed up as this one, chaos […]
This has been a brutal week: racist murders, terrorist beheadings, tourists gunned down, hate mail, and another brother forced to resign from his ministry. It was the mail, and my grief over what this brother and his family are going through, that prompted this psalm, a cry from my own fractured soul–and a glimpse at the hope that […]