He rebuked them, saying: “Yet I am among you as the One who serves” (Luke 22:27 NKJV). He who was above us took a position below us so He could be with us as one of us. That was the incarnation. “You must have the same attitude that Christ Jesus had....
on a first reading, to be an immoral demand by the Lord and an unconscionable acquiescence by a prophet. Christians, of course, read the story typologically: God required Abraham to sacrifice his son in anticipation of God’s own sacrifice of Jesus Christ. In Jewish thought, the Akedah has...
“Dear Lord Jesus, please, please forgive me once again for finding it so hard to share my faith with others. Help me to be able to witness freely about You and Your strength. Don’t give up on me. Try me one more time. Amen and Amen....
The second story allows us to see what can happen when wefailto trust and obey our Lord and Savior. One evening, when I was conversing with the Holy Spirit about miracles performed by Jesus in the Bible, I recognized something. It was brought to my attention, that two(*) of the three...
Daniel had friends of the same faith, but he faced the lion’s den alone, received visions alone, and prayed alone. Paul ministered with companions but sometimes was alone. Jesus dealt with crowds of people yet sought His Father alone. ...
Thus, when the apostle calls Jesus Christ a "foundation," and speaks of building upon this foundation "gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble," adding that "every man's work shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is;" and, fu...
But, oh, friends, the Eucharist! Jesus Christ in the flesh, holding nothing back, stopping at nothing to be close to you, desperate for you. Source and summit, “the center of existence” (Flannery O’Connor), “the one great thing to love on earth” (Tolkien). Thing about being ...
It’s a book about God revealing himself to us. He’s telling his story of salvation, through Jesus, in the power of the Holy Spirit. There is nothing better than knowing God (Jer. 9:23-24)! It is through the Scriptures that we meet Christ (John 5:39-40). No wonder th...
Jesus has spent the last 2,000 years proving himself to us – what more do we need? Every time we lack faith, we are saying to Jesus, “Prove it!” Following Thomas’ demonstration of doubt, Jesus told him, “Happy are those who have not seen and have believed.” That is the ...
worshiped idols, Paul says that when they became followers of Jesus, they turned away from the Greco-Roman pantheon. They went against the grain of their culture. Going against the grain of our culture and society can be very difficult. Are there ways that God calls us to go against our...