Posts Tagged ‘the incarnation’

New Life

04Feb09

Ephesians chapter two starts out: You were dead in your trespasses and sins. … But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ … it is by grace you have been saved. We were dead. Now we are alive. God’s grace makes us alive. If [...]


That’s what Bono said, so it must be true, right? (You’re expecting me to disagree at this point?) I think he got it. I stopped staying up until midnight on New Year’s Eve when I was 13 or 14. The previous year, I’d stayed up to watch the ball drop in Times Square (on tape [...]


My family had a relaxing Christmas. First, we went to Christmas Eve service at Landmark. It was beautiful. Simple, sparse. But beautiful. Paula and Anita did an excellent job with the music – and Celine’s keyboard “played nice” with the sound system. The candles we’d ordered came in just in time, but we still had [...]


I don’t like the idea of advertising our church. And this is after spending a good deal of time in the last two weeks planning, budgeting and designing some advertising. Church is about God. Church is about being in the world, but having a bigger purpose than just the world. It’s about how the Holy [...]



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