Jesus is God’s wide-open Invitation! Advent week 3
Jesus came to do away with the exclusions, the holier-than-thou's, the finger-pointing, the peremptory judgments. Jesus replaced all that with an invitation
cooking, simmering, preparing, waiting… Advent
It is not too late to get Christmas right this year. It is not too late to join the Magi and follow the star. It is not too late to begin the journey home.
Four Foto Friday #Floatography
This has been a photograph-heavy week in the past few days I have shared images of: Snow in Wake Forest... Spectacular birds... The Year in…
When Christmas is Risky Business
"So go for it," The Teacher declares, "knock yourself out! But understand you're fooling yourself if you think any of it amounts to anything in the random, self-serving world we create for ourselves when God is not the central value in the equation."
“God’s Grace is more than enough” – 2018 Derek & Rebekah Maul Newsletter
We didn't come here to go to pasture but to get to work, and meaningful work comes both with its rewards and with its costs.
Grace: Advent Week Two and Eternity Day One
When we understand the implications of Grace, then conflict necessarily lives outside the bounds of grace's covering
I’m dreaming of a “festive, quirky, faith-filled” Christmas…
filtered through the lens of God's spectacular initiative of love and grace in Jesus.
the search for Jesus – we can help
Seek the light; point to the light; be the light.
“POISE” – grace, elegance, balance & control #GeorgeHWBush
Here in America, we are being seduced by the notion that putting ourselves first is good for us. But the scriptures teach otherwise...
Why we get the Internet we deserve…
This is our time to love with such eloquence that the darkness will melt into the nothingness it really is.
