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White taxis and butternut squash
God spoke to me very clearly just recently. He conveyed to me how much He cherished me in a way that I had never quite grasped before. I viewed a wonderful film in my mind’s eye of a maternity ward where my birth was taking place. God waited for me to take my first breath of life and let out that first cry which brings joy and relief and wonderment to a parent. I felt wanted, cherished, loved, safe, adored, like my life was planned and I was longed for by my heavenly father. I’ve never felt as loved as I did in that moment. God delighted in me.
Tags: Christianity, Grace, Identity, Life
// We Want Feet //
Jesus was provocative. His message was provocative. His actions were often remarkably simply yet profoundly subversive shattering perceptions and reconfiguring worldviews. He never did anything that was so far removed from peoples cultural expectations that he lost them. Rather he used familiar customs, stories and practices and loaded them with new and unexpected significance, adding new layers of divine meaning into the often mundane. As Jesus turns water into wine, tells a tale of a beaten up Jew or steps in to halt a stoning, these are moments where the things of heaven fall to earth. One of those moments took place hours before his arrest and execution, in a moment of contradictory divine humility we find him washing the feet of his sometimes-faithless ordinary radicals.
Graceocracy
Forget everything you know about the parable of the good Samaritan. It is not a nice moral tale about a kind man who does a good deed by helping someone who has had a bit of a nasty turn. Nor is it about an arrogant priest who ignores a dying man leaving him to his obvious fate. It is a story about a different kind of priest, one who would come to end all that the earthly priests had been required to do.
Tags: Christianity, Church, CityGroup, Community, Grace
Tags: Grace