A Modest Proposal for Christ Followers on Inauguration Day

I am writing with our current political circumstances in mind, the day before a new President takes office in the U.S.  He will do so in a nation deeply divided over Presidential politics.  Many Christ following persons hold extreme opposite views from those of other brothers and sisters in Christ.  Here’s how extreme: some feel …

Jesus Comes for Us–Precisely for All!

  The Lord our God loves, chooses, and works with/through a people to right the wrong of their lives and world, whatever, however, whenever. But, the Lord does so, not just for them, but for all, for as many as will … The Lord loves his own, so that he may love all. The Lord …

God as Baby?!

C.S. Lewis famously noted that the greatest miracle of Christianity is not the resurrection but the incarnation. If you can accept that God became a baby, the resurrection should not be a problem. But when you held your first-born baby, or grandchild, or any infant, you probably did not think, “This is how God was!” …

When the Towers Fell–A Prayer for 9/11

  God over all, when the towers fell it seemed our world changed. We remember where we were when we first heard, when we saw the fearsome sight, when what we might have thought unassailable crumbled to dust. The shock and awe of those scenes haunt us still. Yet, as we draw near to you …

The Whole Gospel—Vertical AND Horizontal

The Creator and Redeemer God passionately loves the world and all realities it entails past, present and future.  The world created supremely good, then subject to futility and corruption through human disobedience, has never escaped God’s majestic and mysterious plans.  Plans once unknown and beyond human imagining but then shockingly, powerfully and bodily manifested in …