We throw the word ‘love’ around a lot. We love sports teams and food and spa days and luxury cars. We love places and memories and attributes in ourselves and others (all good things!). We love people. It is in those (healthy) relationships that we get a glimpse of what Christ’s love looks like. Selflessness …
One way of viewing the scriptures is as a type of biography. Not about the people in distant lands and times. But about the God who created them. In their stories, they show us who He is and how He interacts with His children. We see His character; His purposes and work (although through a …
Sometimes a subject is so grand, so glorious, so monumental that words alone don’t seem adequate to describe how we feel. Capturing even a glimpse requires more. ‘Joy to the world, the Lord is come.’ ‘He lays His glory by’ and comes to us a babe. Trading dominion and majesty and divinity for utter dependence …
‘Behold the handmaid of the Lord, be it unto me according to thy word’ (Luke 1:38). What was it that allowed Mary to respond in such a way to such an incredible, incomprehensible calling from the Lord? We know little about the facts of Mary’s life. We assume she was a young woman, a teenager, …
After a few tentative comments, the room was silent. It was a deep question to be asking young women after all. What has Jesus Christ’s atonement done for you? Wanting to give them the opportunity to think and to witness, I didn’t say much. But I did ponder a great deal then and since. How …
