The Problem with Beauty Pageants
If only we could all realize that Jesus doesn’t want our wealth, he wants us.
The gospel is the unlikely triumph of the surprising ways of God (i.e. the cross) over the predictably sinful ways of the world (i.e. power).
The mission of the Holy Spirit in our midst is to make us strong in the Lord and glorious expressions of the holy love of God in the world he sent his Son to save.
Following Jesus is waking up to the beautiful life Jesus calls us into, for all its worth, and living it to the absolute fullest.
The movemental journey from the land of slavery to the land of promise must pass through seasons of wilderness; at times seemingly endless ones.
So how does one move from God with me to God within me? Turning to the Lord Jesus, receiving the Holy Spirit, and beholding the glory. It’s all right here.
While faith is definitely a matter of the heart, the life of faith is not primarily lived out in the heart. It is lived from the heart but through our actual bodies.
Thin places become forever marked as sites where the atmosphere seemed to thin out as a window into the heavens opened up; places where glory kisses the ground.
Hiddenness is the gift of God to the humble ones, who have traded in their own quest for glory for the pursuit of beholding the glory of Another.