A Garden of Rest
The Creator made our world and placed a garden in the center of it, calling the garden Eden. It was “paradise”—a Persian word for garden. The garden was sacred. Most…
Jesus and Daily Business
The early church was guided by apostolic letters and Jesus’ biographies that they considered both useful and authoritative. These texts were collected, screened, and checked for credibility against eye witnesses…
New Genesis
In Luke 3.23 we read that “Jesus began his work.” Interestingly, if you were to translate Luke’s writing directly from Greek to English, the most accurate rendering of the text…
God Is Closer Than You Think
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…
God Wants Us To Be Human
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…
God Works Through People
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…
The Suffering Servant
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 Holds the Blame For Our Sins
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…
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