A Wondrous Exchange
On Christmas, we learn that God is absolute, total, self-emptying love.
Darkness Falls
On Christmas Eve Day, night has not yet come; darkness has not yet fallen. But it will come.
Cruciform Epiphany
One way of picturing the church calendar is as an unspooling thread, with each loop expanding the last. But this year, I’m pondering the complementary, and in some ways more elusive and profound, truth.
TBT: ‘The Year of the Lord’
“In this new year of the Lord that lies before us, there will be a plentiful measure of blood and tears. But, as always, Christ stands with outstretched, nail-scarred hands ready to make every man who responds to him an agent in the dispensation of His healing grace.”
More important than you thought: ‘Do You Hear What I Hear?’
For those of us who did not live through the Cuban Missile Crisis, the context may not be immediately evident.
Putting the Incarnation back in ‘incarnational’
The Incarnation is not a principle. It is not just a reminder that God works and speaks through people. It is not primarily a model for ministry.
God’s secret name, and our names
“I AM WHO I AM,” God told Moses (Exod. 3:14). God has a name. But, unlike ours, his Name perfectly expresses what and who he is. “Jeff” is an arbitrary noise, an arbitrary signature, that has no intrinsic connection to a person who by no means has to exist. “Jeff” expresses nothing.
‘What’s in a name?’: A meditation for the Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus
Our minds at this year’s beginning are focused on him who will make all things new. Blessed be the name of the Lord: Jesus, “The Lord saves!”