So the last shall be first, and the first last. Throughout Scripture there is a common theme: humility. God uses the humble, the weak, the least likely candidates to accomplish his will and he shames the powerful and prideful. The birth story of Christ is one of the most powerful examples of God’s turning the […]

“Love does take us and transfigure and torture us. It does break our hearts with an unbearable beauty like the unbearable beauty of music.” G.K. Chesterton Love is unbearable, it demands losing yourself, serving another from the depths of our hearts, and risking everything; and it is so beautiful. The most beautiful things really are […]

My dear friend, Brynna, provided this poem for my series. A talented poet and fantastic blogger, you can read more of her work on her blog, here. May her words stir us to think of Jesus as he really is, not as a symbol of a holiday that makes for pleasant decorations and stirs up […]

We spend our lives trying to understand the world, to discover it’s vastness and it’s limits, to answer every question we can conjure and to search for more questions. We want meaning, we crave it, and we try to satisfy that craving with anything that can distract us for a moment; but when we are […]