The Rev. Dr. Chuck Alley, former rector of St. Matthew’s Church in Richmond, Virginia, teaches anatomy at Virginia Commonwealth University Medical School.
Transformation is the power to utterly change an object, situation, or person. It is the power that can make the weak strong, the poor rich, and the dead alive.
Jesus made the perfect relationship between the incarnate Son and the Father known and commanded them to have the equivalent relationship with one another and the world.
There is an element of exclusivity inherent in dedication. To be dedicated is to be focused—to have one purpose to the exclusion of all other functions.