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Philippians 3:18-19
Consider a small scene. A man wakes up, walks to the kitchen, and finds that the coffee is wrong. Maybe the beans ran out and what is on the counter is a brand he tolerates rather than the one he loves. Maybe he is…
Jonah 3:1-4:5
Jonah names two sources of violence: Nineveh's brutal paganism and Jonah's moralistic religion. God refuses both. He does not excuse Nineveh, and he does not excuse Jonah's anger. The way forward is forgiveness that has…
Jonah 2:1-10
Jonah's prayer from inside the fish shows what spiritual transformation requires. Jonah had real faith, but his faith was fitted to his old world and not yet ready for God's call to Nineveh. Jonah 2:8-9 gives the frame:…
Romans 8:9-11; John 14:16-17
The Father is outside the universe, bigger than everything in it, and yet turned toward the people he made. The Son entered the universe, fully God and fully human, living a life that could be touched and followed and…
John 1:1-14; Philippians 2:6-8
Part one of this series was about the Father, the one who sits outside the universe and made it. The Father is bigger than everything that exists, and yet, unexpectedly, he knows your name and is turned toward you.
Genesis 1:1; Isaiah 40:21-22
Imagine one beam of white light passing through a glass prism. The light separates into colors, each one distinct, and yet they share a single source.
Matthew 16:25
Our culture has a clear picture of what freedom looks like: no constraints, no obligations, no one telling you what to do. The freest person, by that definition, is the one who belongs only to himself, who answers to no…
Romans 8:15-17; Ephesians 1:5-6
When Paul wants to describe what God has done for those who belong to Christ, he reaches past the family vocabulary Scripture has been using up to this point and selects a word from a different domain entirely. It is…