Mary speaks as if God has already accomplished everything. But she’s right: God has already won. We might as well give up and join in.
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When Christ is present our deepest inward longings are met.
Read MoreWhen we hear this story we tend to focus on the Virgin Birth. But there may be a greater miracle here: the fact that Mary says "yes."
Read MoreRevelation 12 suggests that there's more going on under the surface of the Christmas story, and more going on in our own lives, than what we can see and touch.
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The idea of a monarch sounds pretty outdated, medieval, oppressive, even. But followers of Jesus call him Lord and King because he's completely unlike any other king.
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Our culture's imagination is filled with apocalyptic images of doom and destruction. Apocalyptic literature, however, is intended to stoke hope in the emergence of a new thing.
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We tend to imagine God’s work in the world as a “shock-and-awe” power. The widow shows us more the “God of Small Things.”
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Jesus says the commandment to love God with everything you’ve got, and to love your neighbor as yourself is important than any other law or religious ordinance. It would be a relief if it weren’t actually impossible in practice.
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We tend to think of spirituality like fast food—we order something, we get it, and then we’re better people. The Jesus Way is different—it’s more slow food. A lifelong path of being healed from the inside out.
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One of the biggest obstacles people can have to church, faith, God, are the behavior of Christians and their portrayal of God.
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