Familiar
Remember whether we’re talking work, marriage, learning or life with God, the familiar should come with a warning label! The familiar can become a rut and a rut can become a grave.
Double
God measures strength differently than the world. God takes pleasure in those who have such a heightened awareness of God that they respect, reverence, and worship God.
Unimpressed
God measures strength differently than the world. God takes pleasure in those who have such a heightened awareness of God that they respect, reverence, and worship God.
Builds
Real knowledge, according to Paul, is that all human knowledge is partial and evolving while the very best of knowledge knows there’s “no failure in love.”
Direction
What we find most objectionable about God is that God doesn’t affirm our grudge making and maintenance, God sends us towards the ones we struggle to love.
More Than a Dream
Out of the deep ocean of his vocabulary, “dream” is the word that’ll be quoted repeatedly. Yet, the substance of his “dream” is often co-opted by political partisans to disguise greed and diluted by the church to camouflage moral cowardice.
Beginning
God has manifested God’s self among us in the birth of Jesus, now we are invited to be newly, highly aware of God manifesting God’s self. So let’s begin at the beginning, with Genesis and creation
A Christmas Message from Bishop Robert Wright
Breaking news from the Promised Land, God has answered the world’s greatest needs in the most surprising of ways – through the incarnation, God became flesh as Jesus Christ was born in Bethlehem.
Exclamation
The breaking news of Christmas can turn your heart and your home upside down, not by guilt, not by shame, but by an overwhelming, unimaginable, illogical, mind-boggling, impossible amount of good breaking news.
Garland
Garland can be fashioned into wreaths, but garland can also be fashioned into a crown. So gift your grief to God this Christmas and receive your crown of consolation.