The Answer to the World’s Problems
We, as followers of Jesus, land here in these texts, in the Beatitudes, in 1 Corinthians, and in Micah: Do justice, love mercy, walk humbly with God.
Follow this Foolishness, Proclaim this Power
Love can feel like foolishness to anyone who sees those with power, money, and weapons dominating those without, but this love is the power of God.
Finding our Identity in God’s Love
As people of the Epiphany, we follow the one who was named Beloved from heaven, because we too find our identity in that love which calls us to love.
Trading Power for Love, Joy, and Peace
When we let go of power and control, when we love our neighbor as ourselves, we end up like the wise men, overwhelmed with unspeakable joy.
Dwelling in the Transcendent and Immanent
We get to worship God, the transcendent, and we get to build God’s kingdom on earth, the immanent, because God came to this world on Christmas.
The Most Important Word this Christmas
God, at Christmas, tells us that there will never again be a “for” that is not based on a fundamental, unalterable, everlasting, unswerving “with.”
Childlike Joy and Peace on Earth
This is the season of joy because of an act of love so radical and unbelievable, a love that can and will transform everything.
Unbelievable Love that Changes the World
In a moment of love so radical we cannot fully comprehend it, we now have “God with us.” The creator God is coming into the world to save the world.
Peace in a World Without Peace
Peace comes through choosing to rest fully in the arms of the Great Physician, the one who will transform us with the Spirit and with refining fire.
Light and Hope Until the Very End
We know how to live in light of all that is to come, both personally, with our own endings, and cosmically, with the end of the world as we know it. We live in love.
Fluency in both Grief and Hope
Hardship, as Jesus says, is inevitable, and it will come. But that hardship is also our opportunity as Christians to testify to goodness and to love.
A Wee, Little, Wealthy, Unlikely Saint
St. Zacchaeus saw Jesus coming, ran toward him, climbed a tree to see him, and then gave what he could give so that he could walk in the way of love.