Bring it in 2016! * * * That’s my resolution. Step up my game. Ramp up my efforts. Press into the calling! What about you? * * * Here are 16 biblical ways to Bring It in 2016 from Hebrews 12 #1 Let the past go. Hebrews 12:1 “Therefore, since we are surrounded by such […]
It’s Christmas Eve and the miraculous hidden in the womb of a virgin named Mary would be a miracle revealed at His birth. The Incarnation—beginning as a fertilized egg—would become visible to a watching world in His birth. Although if they’d had ultrasound back then, He would have been there: The Son of God visible […]
What Jesus could not be as the pre-Incarnate Christ was to be personal to every man. What Jesus could not be as the Incarnate Christ was everywhere at once. The Incarnation was therefore critical to God’s expanding rule. Both personal and everywhere at once! Not as a geographical land conquering, but with Jesus as Lord […]
In the movie Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, Kevin McCallister says to a New York City taxi driver, “Boy, it’s scary out there.” The scary-looking driver responds, “Ain’t much better in here, kid.” It’s a scary world out there for all of us. There’s terrorism in Paris and San Bernardino. It’s a world […]
Unlike technology where the second is called a beta version (often viewed as a product or service deemed unready for mainstream consumption) when Jesus came as the Second Adam, He was perfect. Beta products may not ready for prime time and people will wait for debugged items to hit the store shelves, but Jesus was […]
As we’ve begun to consider the Incarnation as the means through which God makes us acceptable to Him, we cannot forget that the scarlet cord running through it has always been sacrifice. It was sacrifice when God supplied the ram so that Abraham’s faith would shine and the line of God’s promise would carry forth […]
The Incarnation was never the end game. It was always preparing the way. The way of peace. The way of reconciliation. The way of ongoing presence of God. And the way for the Holy Spirit to come. In the Incarnation, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit all had some skin in the game, even if Jesus […]
When opposing groups come to some sort of peace agreement, each side usually gives up something to reach a so-called happy middle ground. It’s all about compromise and getting to a place of relationship. Not so with God. Because God is holy and we are sinners, there is no middle ground. It’s like pregnancy, you […]
Do you ever wish you’d lived back in the days when Jesus walked the earth? To touch His human hand, to know His human voice, to see His human face, to hear His human laugh, and to look deep into His human eye… knowing what we know now… on this side of the Ascension? That […]
