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Knowing our Father in love as love

In the Jesus story, we see the Father loving his Son and the Son loving his Father. We see them no other way. And the way we see them in this love relationship is the way they always are within … Continue reading

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Like Father, like Son

Jesus said, “If you have seen me you have seen the Father”. That was so because Jesus, the Father’s Son, is One in Being with the Father. When Jesus acted his Father acted in and through him. When Jesus spoke … Continue reading

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God with a human face

No one has ever seen God or can see him. So, left to ourselves we are always staring at a Nameless and Faceless Divine Being. This is the unknown God who will always be beyond our tiny minds. It is … Continue reading

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Sharing in God’s Knowing of Himself

Left to ourselves we may think about God in ways that are abstract, remote, static and impersonal. However, we are not left to our own thinking about God because he has revealed himself to us through Jesus by the Spirit. … Continue reading

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Knowing the love that surpasses knowledge

To know the Triune God more deeply we always stay within the Jesus story. We stay within the story because we know that who God is in Jesus he is eternally within himself. He is not different in himself from … Continue reading

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Knowing God through Jesus

When considering knowing God the very first thing we say is Jesus. For Jesus is the unveiling of God to us. And as so we say Jesus we also say that God IS Father, Son and Spirit as one communion … Continue reading

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You will appear with Christ in Glory

“When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory” (Colossians 3:4) When the Father’s Son appeared on earth as the man Jesus people saw him. Now he is at the right hand of … Continue reading

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Hidden with Christ in God

In Colossians 3, Paul says you have died with Christ (v3). He goes on to say that Christ is now your life (v4). And so your life is HIDDEN with Christ in God (v3). Jesus was once visible to human eyes. … Continue reading

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Raised with Christ

Christ died for us and we died with him. We died to the old order in Adam under sin and death. Christ rose from death as the new man in new creation and we have been raised with the new … Continue reading

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Fellowship (koinonia) with the Father and with his Son

The New Testament word koinonia refers to sharing in something. Before the world began Father and Son shared in the divine life as they mutually indwelt one another in the Spirit. Within this communion of love they also shared an … Continue reading

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