READ: Zechariah 1, John 16, 1 Peter 5 HELPING GOD ON HIS TERMS Jesus is so annoyingly persistent. The satisfactions of God are so much more exhaustive than ours; they cost us more to attain and they satisfy us more deeply once we find them, once they find us. We humans have a fairly low…
READ: Proverbs 14, Luke 2, 1 John 2 JESUS IS NOT OUR SERVANT The incarnation is powerful because it is so unexpected. Who would have thought God Almighty would come to earth as a babe wrapped in swaddling clothes (Luke 2:12)? We have become a little too comfortable with the anomalies of God–incarnation being one, servanthood…
READ: Leviticus 16-18, Psalm 37, Mark 9, Romans 9 GREATLESS A dispute arises among the followers of Jesus regarding which of them would become greatest. We all have a little bit of Absalom in us, angling for the throne, sizing up our competition, hoping to be first in line to succeed the current authority. Jesus steps…