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When people hear the word God they may think of a Perfect Being who is remote and removed from the messy world in which we live our messy lives. This God is the Supreme Being who has no personal face … Continue reading →

Do we really see Jesus as God entering fully into the human situation as a human with humans? Or do we rather see him as a human who somehow floats over the human situation? The Jesus we meet in his … Continue reading →

In our world people are usually glorified as the move upward to stand out above all the rest.  In contrast to this,  the God of majesty was glorified as he moved downward to the very lowest place for us.  In … Continue reading →

In Jesus, God’s glory and our good are inseparably joined together as one. For God brings honour to his own name in the world by reaching out to save the world through Jesus. He takes up our lost and hopeless … Continue reading →

The world is turned away from God and incapable of turning back to him. Indeed, it does not even want to turn back. Instead, the world accelerates headlong to the abyss. Nevertheless, God in Christ turns towards the world to … Continue reading →

He who was in the form of God took the form of a lowly servant. As servant he was obedient even to the point of death on a cross, the lowest place of all. In moving towards us as lowly … Continue reading →

When thinking about God I used to focus on the general idea of a supreme being. The infinite, eternal and unchanging being who is utterly apart from his creation. But I have since learned to consider God through his own … Continue reading →

The world has rejected God and turned far away from him. Nevertheless, the world is not left to its own devices. God actually entered the world in Jesus to turn the world around. Jesus, the lowly man, is himself true … Continue reading →

Can the world reconcile itself to God? The world is at enmity with God so it cannot possibly act as its own the reconciler? The world is actually so hostile to God it does not even want to be reconciled. … Continue reading →

The Father chose his unique Son to go the way of lowly service for us. And the Son freely chose to go that way as the Lord who serves. Father and Son made this decision together in the Spirit Jesus … Continue reading →