What does it mean, in our post-truth era, to worship the King of Truth? What does it mean to ‘belong to the Truth’ in a culture that increasingly denies Truth’s validity? … how can we bear witness to a complex truth, a truth like the incarnation story of birth, life, death and resurrection, in a world that prefers Instagram, Facebook, and X, or internet games and action hero movies? [To read more, click on title]
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Make Way, Clear the Road!
Can you think of the places in your life that need straightening, filling in and levelling? What about the rough places? I certainly can! See, these instructions are still for us … [To read more, click on title]
You Did it to Me
The kingly royalty Jesus describes in Matthew’s Gospel is of another order entirely. It describes homeless Jesus. Sick Jesus. Imprisoned Jesus. Hungry Jesus. Naked Jesus. It is, in the words of theologian Fleming Rutledge, the “royalty that stoops” … [To read more, click on title]
The ‘Why’ of Repentance
We find ourselves once again on the banks of the River Jordan with John the Baptist. We should be used to it by now, but that wild prophet John still jars as a a party-pooper as we look toward Christmas … [to read more, click on title]
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