In a world desperately in need of good news and forlornly weary of platitudes we celebrate the coming of Immanuel—God with us—in the gift of Jesus Glory to God in the highest! Well, yes, but what about us in the lowest? If it doesn’t work for the whole world and all of reality, does it …
Category Archives: The Good News
GOD AS BABY!
When you held your first-born baby, or grandchild, or any infant, you probably did not think, “This is how God was!” 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. The …
JESUS IS THE ELEPHANT
Jesus is the elephant–the elephant of the story, the elephant in the room, and the elephant that is unlike any other. Jesus is the elephant of the story. The story has become a well-known parable, tracing back to ancient Hindu and Buddhist texts some 2500 years ago. Commonly called “the parable of the blind men …
The First Day of the Week
On the first day of the week we became Easter People. Our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom all things were made in the beginning, has initiated the new creation. Just as in the first beginning, Jesus completed the work—living among us, proclaiming Kingdom-come, casting out demons, healing the sick, mending the broken, confronting the powers …
WAS JESUS ABANDONED?
When from the cross Jesus cries out: “My God, My God, why have you abandoned me?” he felt the full consequences of human sin, which separates from all that is good, including God who is good. To embrace human sinfulness in bodily life in loving self-sacrifice, as Jesus did, pushed him to the outermost edges …