A protestant as I am, I privately profusely protested when my Professor placidly presented his case for why Mary is the mother of God. He is not Roman Catholic. With calmness and candor, he clarified the consequences of things being otherwise.
Category: Jesus Christ
Do our Bodies Matter to God?
Bodies, are they saved? Will they ever be? Does it matter anyway? Most of us reading this have heard a saying that we are spirits with souls that live in bodies.
Enriched by His Poverty: 2 Corinthians 8:9
Opulence naturally appeals to us. Poverty repels. Therefore, prosperity preaching is as popular as it is perilous.
Silence!
Jesus died. For you. Let this sip and sink into your heart as percolating water irrigating the dry land. Do not resist it. Do not rush it. Meditate, in silence.
Crucified with Christ
Romans crucified criminals. The cross was the cruellest torturous tool for execution. Unlike now, crosses in the ancient world were not donned as necklaces but dreaded as demons.
As He is so are We: 1 John 4:17
1 John 4:17 excites many who find in it a liberation from the seeming insignificance of being human.
Ubuntu: The Local Church as a Community of Being
The African concept of Ubuntu, which loosely translates as ‘I am because we are, and because we are therefore I am’ insists that to be human consists in a continual community of being, knowing, and becoming.
What Crown do You Seek? Tuliyambala Engule
There are many means to crash a car. One sure way is driving in the opposite direction of a one-way street.
The Core of Christmas
The shepherds journeyed long to Bethlehem to ‘see this thing that has come to pass’ (Luke 2:15). The setting of the first Christmas seemed to simmer with silent inaction and similar starry sights in the sky on that cold night.
The Sin, the Serpent, and the Seed
Shame and blame, dread and doubt, hang on Adam as a weighty stone on a suspended thread. His sin has found him out, and with it comes inner condemnation, a testament to a broken relationship and a betrayal of trust.