Why Jesus Came
Love is what God is, love is why Jesus came, and love is why he continues to come year after year to person after person. . . . May you…
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A Party
Neither son understands that the father’s love was never about any of that. The father’s love cannot be earned, and it cannot be taken away. It just is. It’s a…
Freedom
There is another dimension to the violent, demanding God, the one people need Jesus to rescue them from. We see it in the words of the older brother, when he…
The Older Brother
We shape our God, and then our God shapes us. A distorted understanding of God, clung to with white knuckles and fierce determination, can leave a person outside the party,…
God is the Rescuer.
Let’s be very clear, then: we do not need to be rescued from God. God is the one who rescues us from death, sin, and destruction. God is the rescuer.…
Joyous Participation
This is why Christians who talk the most about going to heaven while everybody else goes to hell don’t throw very good parties. When the gospel is understood primarily in…
The Father’s Unfairness
The father redefines fairness. It’s not that his father hasn’t been fair with him; it’s that his father never set out to be fair in the first place. Grace and…
Widening the Scope
People come to Jesus in all sorts of ways. Sometimes people bump into Jesus, they trip on the mystery, they stumble past the word, they drink from the rock, without…
As Wide As the Universe
John remembers Jesus saying, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me” (chap. 14). This is as wide and…
Supracultural
Jesus is supracultural. He is present within all cultures, and yet outside of all cultures. He is for all people, and yet he refuses to be co-opted or owned by…