if the son has set you free, you are free indeed. Once freedom has been offered by God himself; once he has our attention, I expect Jesus to spell out, in 5 steps or less, what it might mean to live as a free man. If I’m lucky, maybe all the steps will rhyme, or…
If the Son has set you free, you are free indeed. Some things that Jesus said are, to put it mildly, insane. It’s hard to justify the wisdom of a spiritual leader, a rabbi, a paragon of virtue, and more generally, somebody who could be described as “having it all together,” when he runs around…
the kingdom of God is in the midst of you. The teachers of the law were the ones who were supposed to get it. The teachers of the law hadn’t the faintest idea of what was right under their noses. Much has changed since the days when Jesus walked the earth but at least this…
Would that we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots and ate bread to the full, for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger. A month and a half earlier, the Hebrews were slaves…
The past week has been a whirlwind for me as a writer. I remember just over a week ago telling a new friend about the “book deal” I’ve had in place. Have you ever thought about just how ridiculous that might sound, telling strangers about a book that has– as of then– no physical presence?…
Years ago, my friend Brian told me a story about Harriet Tubman, a black woman who escaped to the North at the brink of the Civil War. Tubman is famous for her work in the “Underground Railroad,” which consisted largely of her 19 visits back to the South to free slaves during America’s bloodiest time.…
Are you truly free? This question has been with me all weekend, as I have kept coming back to the very nature of slavery, freedom and covenant. Did Jesus come to live this life for me, die my death for me, raise to new life for me, mediate for me in the presence of God…
