Christians like to talk a lot about the word. We encourage each other to “get into the word”. We can talk exhaustively about biblical this or that. As a new Christian hearing people talk about the word of God meaning the Bible made sense. The Bible is full of words. But then I read the […]
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Advent Season of Contrasts and Herod
This Advent* we’re exploring the contrasts in the nativity stories. (This post will give you a short introduction) Many churches focus on four traditional Advent themes. Peace, Joy, Love, Hope. But we seldom wonder why those themes are important. Why do we lift these up as a focal point? I think it is because so often the […]
Advent:Season of Contrasts and Angels
This Advent we’re exploring the contrasts in the nativity stories. (Last week’s post will give you a short introduction) Many churches focus on four traditional Advent themes. Peace, Joy, Love, Hope. But we seldom wonder why those themes are important. Why do we lift these up as a focal point? I think it is because […]
Our Friend Jesus
Often Christians say something like, “Jesus is my friend”. Sometimes we sing about it. Jesus is my friend and Jesus is your friend. That is true. But if we aren’t careful, we can trivialize Jesus’ friendship. Of course, we have different kinds of friends, don’t we? Work friends. School friends. Friends who don’t’ let friends […]
Jesus and Torah
Last time on the blog, we thought about some of the purposes of Torah. For Christians, spending some time thinking about Torah is useful because that helps us better understand some of the things Jesus said and did. For example, in Matthew 5 during the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus says, “Do not think that […]
Least of These?
“Truly I tell you, just as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers and sisters, you did it to me.” How often have you hear someone talk about mission to “the least of these”? Does that phrase bother you? Does it make you uncomfortable? It does me. It separates the […]
Christmas, Incarnation and Emmanuel 2
Yes friends, it is still Christmas and we are still thinking about the Incarnation. We’ve spent some time thinking about how in the Incarnation, God shows us what it means to be human. In addition, the Incarnation shows us that God understands what it is like to be human. We, at least I, need to […]
