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Through Jesus, we see God’s power expressed in human weakness.  We see God, the supreme ruler, acting not from beyond us like some impersonal force, but acting among us in a personal way as one of us.  Through Jesus, the … Continue reading →

God’s Spirit is groaning over the creation that exists in bondage and decay.  And the  Spirit’s groaning is expressed in and through us, as we pray over the broken world with sighs too deep for words. In our weakness, we … Continue reading →

In the beginning, when the earth was formless and empty, the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. When the first human was created, the Spirit breathed into him making him a living soul. And the same Spirit continues … Continue reading →

The Father sent his own Son into the world to accomplish the reconciliation of the world.  The Son gladly came, making himself nothing as a lowly servant unto death.  And his Father was pleased to raise him from death as … Continue reading →

Through Jesus, the almighty power of God is demonstrated in lowliness and littleness. Consider his birth. The Holy Spirit came on a humble girl.  The power of the Most High overshadowed her conceiving the God-Human embryo within her lowly womb. … Continue reading →

In lowly suffering on the cross, Jesus expresses God’s power in weakness.  In this single act of lowly self-giving Jesus brings to an end the old age of sin and death under which all humanity was held in bondage.  In … Continue reading →

The Almighty God became human to live and move in human frailty. The Creator himself became a creature without ceasing to be the Creator.  The high and holy one stooping to become little and low without ceasing to be who … Continue reading →

In the beginning, there was nothing at all. Nothing, that is, except God—Father, Son, and Spirit as a circle of joyful love. However, this God chose to create all things. Our cosmos is no mere accident, but the loving and … Continue reading →

God did not need to create the world in order to have someone to love. God IS love as three persons within a communion of love. The Father loves the Son in the Spirit. The Son loves the Father in … Continue reading →

Within the church at Colossae, there was a desire for “fullness”. So, to gain fullness, they placed alongside Jesus dietary rules, religious festivals, the worship of angels, false humility, philosophy etc.   With that in mind, Paul wants the Colossians to … Continue reading →