Tag: Christian New Year

Believing must lead to becoming, lest believing be emptied of its power.

Christmas belongs to Jesus, and all Jesus wants for Christmas is for us, you and me, to belong to him. 

For Christians, the Christmas spirit must increasingly mean being filled with the Holy Spirit in ways making us radically hospitable, boldly open, extraordinarily generous, and deeply attuned to the ways of Jesus.

Joseph is the most underrated and under-celebrated member of the cast of the story of Jesus. He did the hard thing. 

Faith says yes before the assignment from God comes, and it is essential we start practicing now.

Christmas is an invitation to behold. Advent is a message saying, “Wake up!” 

Righteousness means life made right again—not by our efforts but from beyond us. 

The Spirit works to calm our very being, emptying us of anxiety and filling us with joy.

There is perhaps no more biblical call to the people of God than to wait for the Lord.

What if holiness is not immunity from the world, but the contagion in the world we want everyone to catch?

As my soul magnifies the Lord, my wounded spirit is delivered from every bondage, healed, and set free to rejoice. 

The response to abounding love is not reciprocation but deep receiving leading to deepening relationship.