Every moment is an opportunity to make the highest truth and deepest theology and largest love small enough to see.
While our sin follows a trajectory of fall and brokenness and death, his death pioneers resurrection and healing and life.
The Author takes our stalled stories and bends them toward his purpose and glory.
The Author takes our stalled stories and bends them toward his purpose and glory.
Jesus takes what is future, what is far off, and drags it into the present. He buries it in us like a seed, waiting for the harvest.
In the days of fulfillment foreseen by Jeremiah, God does more than make a covenant with his people. At the dawn of the New Testament, he becomes one of them.
We want the ground to shake, but he comes as a baby. Advent fulfills our greatest expectations in a way that we never expected.
Advent begins in the dark. But around the edges of the deep horizon we see a faded gray creeping in.
In the fullness of time, the story of God takes a scandalous turn that we dared not even imagine. The Creator steps into the story, and takes on the lead role. The Author becomes the Protagonist.
With Jesus, rock bottom is an opportunity to begin again and coming undone is a chance to be made new. The end is where he starts from.
What can we learn from John Wesley’s rediscovery of the primitive church? Matt Leroy shares what the early church could say to us now.
