“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.” ― Mahatma Gandhi Gandhi gave this response to Christian missionaries who were speaking to Him regarding his views on Christianity. He had encountered Christians in South Africa, where he lived for a time. His experiences with them were …
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Unwrapping Christmas
“When Pope Julius I authorized December 25 to be celebrated as the birthday of Jesus in A.D. 353, who would have ever thought that it would become what it is today. When Professor Charles Follen lit candles on the first Christmas tree in America in 1832, who would have ever thought that the decorations would …
Christmas, the Great Adventure
The advent of our Savior is truly a great adventure. “Advent” is the root word for adventure, giving the impression of the arrival or appearance of something risky and wondrous. The Advent we celebrate has a wild and risky edge to it, because our God has always chosen wildness as one of His trademarks. Listen …
Christmas on the Wild Frontier
The story of the birth of Jesus is a story of a vulnerable baby born into a scene that can be best described as a wild frontier. A dangerous, unpredictable world rife with animosity toward God. Our God sends His Infant Son into this world naked, vulnerable, exposed to great danger. It seems to be …
Christmas – The Wild Frontier
The Christmas story, the account of the arrival of our Savior as a baby, has a wildness to it. Colored with scandal, flavored with risk, it has elements that are wild, bold, over the edge. Our God appears as a helpless baby in a scene that could be accurately described as a wild frontier socially, …
Christmas – A Scandal Is Born
“But we preach Christ crucified, to Jews a stumbling block and to Gentiles foolishness….” I Corinthians 1:23 In the last few posts, I wrote of the coming of our Savior and the light that He brought into the dark world. Light is a popular topic around Christmas. We find great comfort in the positive themes …
Christmas – The Kingdom of Light, Pt. 3
"To secure one's freedom the Christian must experience God's light which is God's truth." - Watchman Nee “This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all. If we claim to have fellowship with him and yet walk in the darkness, …
Christmas – The Kingdom of Light, Pt. 2
"The fundamental principle of Christianity is to be what God is, and he is light." - John Hagee “Christianity is a daily supernatural experience with your Father God, not a set of rules” - Robin Bremer “This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there …
Christmas-The Kingdom of Light
“The Kingdom of God is where we belong. It is home, and whether we realize it or not, I think we are all of us homesick for it." ― Frederick Buechner Isaiah 2:2-5 “ In the last days the mountain of the Lord’s temple will be established as the highest of the mountains; it will be …
Choosing to Press On to Intimacy With Our God
“In my creature impatience I am often caused to wish that there were some way to bring modern Christians into a deeper spiritual life painlessly by short, easy lessons; but such wishes are vain. No shortcut exists. God has not bowed to our nervous haste nor embraced the methods of our machine age. It is …
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