How could something be so cosmically significant as Jesus’ death on the cross and so completely invisible to those gathered at the scene?
We might expect to hear this in the courts of Rome—but not in the streets of Jerusalem.
Have you ever noticed how what we most despise in others is what we hate most about ourselves?
These days everybody wants to be on the right side of history. No one seems to care too much about being on the right side of the truth.
Religion and religious systems have a way of fitting God into the boxes and spaces we create in our lives to contain him. Only, God will not be contained.
There are many roles to be occupied and parts to be played but there is only one script for the friends of Jesus—to know Christ.
We do not vindicate Jesus when we fight for him. He vindicates us when we suffer loss with him.
What if the passion of Jesus is as old as the Son of God, which is to say, eternal?
The strategy of false teaching is to compromise the truth in the name of love (which is not love) in order to maintain a unity (which is not unity).
The Father puts all the freight and weight of his love for the world on his Son.
To ask to be sanctified is to be like a burning bush—a sight which inspires the awe of God in the awakened and evokes a breathtaking curiosity in those yet asleep.
The life or prayer should captivate our consciousness and ever charge our imaginations with the power and possibilities of God in this world.
