[Featured Art by Jen Horton on Fine Art America, “The Last Supper”. ] It’s easy to think of people like Jesus and John the Baptist and know they are holy people. Jesus was conceived holy. Born holy. Lived holy. The Son of God remained sinless and faithful to the work God gave Him as HeContinueContinue reading “Set Apart: Holy People”
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Human and Holy
Transitions hold complexities that we often fail to have words for. All at the same time we might hold anxiety and excitement, grief and gratitude, or dread and delight – together. This is a mighty truth that has taken me a better part of fifty years to grasp. And I believe that as I movedContinueContinue reading “Human and Holy”
Hidden Agendas: Jesus
Jesus silently slips under the water, rising up not ‘clean from sin’ but anointed for ministry. He enters the river a relative unknown. He exits a man-god on a mission. He steps onto the dust of His homeland, named by God and filled by the Spirit, ready to fulfill the agenda He’s been given: toContinueContinue reading “Hidden Agendas: Jesus”
Hope Redeemed
Turn the news on, and we hear story after story that seemingly affirms what we’ve suspected: the world is out of control. Invasions, crime, political divides, corruption, and religious failures scream to our fears, “There’s no hope!” Add to this list our personal burdens–family conflict, financial strain, failing health–and it’s no wonder we’ve become theContinueContinue reading “Hope Redeemed”
Possible
First He prayed, “Everything is possible for you.” A word of faith. Of truth. Then He prayed, “Take this cup from me.” His honest, heart-felt cry. The pain, the suffering bubbling-up out of His humanity. “Yet not what I will but what you will” (Mark 14: 34, 36). A choice to follow God wherever HeContinueContinue reading “Possible”