“Everything we do as Christians, everything we experience – good and bad, everything we witness that is hopeful or discouraging is in the shadow of the resurrected Lamb of God.”
Category: Lent
The Normal Was Disturbed
“IT WAS NORMAL FOR PEOPLE TO BE LABELED SINNERS from what they were suffering, but it was abnormal to be described as non-sinners while still suffering. EVERYTHING JESUS DOES IN THIS STORY IS A DEPARTURE FROM THE NORMAL.”
Thirst Is a Good Thing
“If we did not thirst, we wouldn’t seek the fluid we need to satisfy us, to meet our needs, to survive. Is this woman thirsty? FOR WHAT IS SHE THIRSTING?”
We’ve Become Something New
“Jesus answered him, ‘Very truly, I tell you, NO ONE CAN SEE THE KINGDOM OF GOD without being born from above.”
They’re Personal
“Dear Jesus, please don’t let that ice cream man come down my street anymore.”
He Deserves Our Joyful Praise
“Jesus had told them what was to come when he entered Jerusalem. What was to come was out of their hands. What was most pressing in that moment was to praise God joyfully and loudly. “
What Could Happen Next
“After seeing and hearing of Lazarus rising from the tomb, what could possibly happen next?”
They Deserve It
“God’s kindness and mercy are far ahead of our mere human, prejudicial understanding of who deserves what.”
There Are No Dead Ends
“It was Jerusalem that needed to turn around and go back the way it came. That’s what the prophets called Jerusalem to do, and that’s what Jerusalem refused to do.”
Who We Are
“The gospel that we hear is that we are reconciled, conformed, harmonized, settled, brought to terms, patched up, fixed up, kiss and made up by Christ’s death to present us holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation! Alleluia.”
Psalm 102 in The Message 