The Great Epiphany of the Word of God
The Word of God must shift from a duty we perform to a desire in which we delight.
The notion of sacred space and secular space is an absurdity to the Bible. No place is too sacred and no place too profane to warrant the witness of the Word of God.
The Word of God is perfect, trustworthy, right, radiant, pure, and firm. It refreshes, makes wise, grants joy, gives light, endures forever and brings righteousness.
God has revealed his thoughts and ways, his mind and heart, his intentions, purposes and will to us through his revealed Word.
Our lives consist not in the big decisions and banner events dotting our calendars but in the little things we consistently do day after day after day.
Christmas belongs to Jesus, and all Jesus wants for Christmas is for us, you and me, to belong to him.
For Christians, the Christmas spirit must increasingly mean being filled with the Holy Spirit in ways making us radically hospitable, boldly open, extraordinarily generous, and deeply attuned to the ways of Jesus.
Joseph is the most underrated and under-celebrated member of the cast of the story of Jesus. He did the hard thing.