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
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."
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.
no great distance from Wake Forest to Bethlehem…
...to capture something of the light and promise that first infiltrated this world two-thousand years ago when heaven came down and glory spilled into the human experience
The Advent of the Birth of Promise – this is the day to come home to church!
Jesus is actually here, the moment is now, and his birth, the miracle of Christmas, is completely accessible and present today, here in December 2018.
“and a little child will lead them” – well, she led me… #WalkThroughBethlehem
The wolf will live with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the young goat; the calf and the young lion will feed…
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“People Get Ready…”
we simply need to remember - every single day - that we belong to Jesus and that we have been given the gift of hope, peace, joy, love, and promise in order to share it with a hungry, broken world.
“gratitude without purpose is simply a good feeling”
Love is the activating force that gives purpose to what we are grateful for, it is what turns our belief into action
Love God, enjoy life, bless others
There is no amount of money, no luxury, no accolade, no acquisition of power or privilege that could come close to the beauty and the satisfaction of an encouraging and affirming relationship rooted in God's kind of love.
the view from over here
I've got to tell you, the view from over here is beautiful, it is real, and above all it is hopeful.
