Being invited to this party has nothing to do with what you have but everything to do with what you are willing to receive.
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And this is a great irony: inner peace does not come from within; it’s a gift given to us by the God whose peace is not of this world.
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Christ is looking for losers, for followers willing to regard everything as loss because of the surpassing value of knowing him as Lord.
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But to share the good news that “Jesus is Lord” means that the church’s witness must match that of Jesus himself.
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The first task of the church is to be the church.
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God redeems evil, transforming it—through God’s mercy, grace, and love—into blessing.
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God doesn’t need us to have our lives all sorted out in order to use us to work God’s good purposes.
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The place in your life where you feel most vulnerable…is the very place where God meets you, just as God met Jacob.
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God appears not only in the miraculous but also among the mundane. Amid the daily dysfunction of flawed families and imperfect people.
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The gospel isn’t, “Try hard enough for long enough and you will eventually get there.” The gospel is simply, “Your sins are forgiven.”
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Like Jacob, our instinct is often to grasp for that which we’ve already been given…. Or like Esau we hold too lightly the priceless grace that we’ve been given.
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This is how God so often comes to us…not in peals of thunder and flashes of lightning but in the mundane, in the ordinary…
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The place where Abraham most feared to tread, the place where his faith in God was about to cost him everything, became the place where God provided.
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Even though she is an outsider, Hagar’s story is woven into the grand narrative of God’s grace for insider and outsider alike
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The gospel of Jesus Christ is not funny, but it is a laughing matter…a cause for joy, a reason to celebrate.
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So Abram went. Upon those three words hinges the hope of the whole fallen world.
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The only thing that defines you, ironically, has nothing to do with you; rather it is what God has done for you in Jesus Christ that is your defining trait.
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When we rebel against the rule of love that God has ordained for all things, chaos ensues.
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The important thing is that the Holy Spirit gives us the gifts we need to serve the community where we are.
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Here again we see the irony of the gospel at work. Gospel glory does not wear a crown, it’s nailed to a cross.
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