God’s glory is seen through Jesus’ normality, but it is seen with a certain hiddenness. Like peering into a side view mirror while driving, Jesus’ humanity reminds us that God…

Too many people want everything to be super-spiritual at the expense of being human. When I was growing up we had a gaggle of Christian keeners we called “The Power…

Why did Jesus have to come in the first place? Simply, because God always works through people. God made the earth as a habitat for us, a playground where we…

In Isaiah 53 we read about a figure called the Suffering Servant. This Servant is described as the ideal King of Israel who will use his power to help the…

Jesus was blamed for the sins of all in both the philosophical sense (others blamed him) and the theological sense (he willingly accepted that blame). The reason he was the…

Because God is perfect God cannot abide the presence of imperfection. Yet, because of our human nature, we are all imperfect. The biblical term for our imperfection is sin. In…

The Cross is our proof of God’s love, the trophy of our redemption. A trophy is a sign of victory, but in the ancient world a trophy was something you…