For the death of Jesus on the cross climaxes the beginning of a new era, an era in which he himself is the temple, where he is our high priest who offers himself in sacrifice for us.
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Despite our desire to marvel at the widow’s sacrificially generous offering, Jesus never praises her for her generosity.
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Whereas the law says, “Here, do this,” grace says, “Now hear this.”
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In a way, Bartimaeus, although blind, sees what the disciples cannot…his blindness has given him insight.
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For Jesus, glory is not drawing to himself an army but embracing the world with outstretched arms, with arms nailed to a cross.
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We don’t enter the kingdom of God through our own righteous effort; we receive it in complete dependence like a child.
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We too bear the mark of a scarlet letter upon our bodies. However, it is not an “A” for adultery that marks us but rather an “F” for forgiven.
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Jesus, our savior, is the one who took the millstone around his own neck on the cross, and in doing so extends God’s infinite grace to all...
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If you want to be before all others, then step to the back of the line. If you want to be lifted up, then fall to your knees.
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Suffering, rejection, and death. These are what the Son of God will subject himself to. These are divine things.
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“Be opened.” Jesus says this not only to the deaf man but also to the disciples, who have not been able to hear what Jesus has been trying to teach them about grace...
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Liberty is not about freedom from something—restraints or restrictions—but freedom for something—namely, our neighbor.
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Elijah can flee into the furthest reaches of an arid wasteland, but even there the voice of the Lord will call him and the hand of the Lord will uphold him.
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As the bread of life, Jesus satisfies the universal hunger and thirst to be known, to be forgiven, to be loved, and to belong.
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Jesus utterly rejects all offers of worldly power. He will not be Caesar, however much we want him to be. He would literally rather die,
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The power of the cross is the power to create community where before there was only mistrust and misunderstanding.
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Even as sin and death appear triumphant in the present, the kingdom of God is already breaking upon the world.
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Even when there is profound resistance to the Gospel, the Holy Spirit is still at work.
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Despite all opposition and all attempts at holding it back, the kingdom of God will continue to break in upon the world, and lives will continue to be transformed as a result.
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To trust in God is to pray, to pray is to hope, and to hope is to live as though our hope has already been fulfilled…because it has.
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