One of the beautiful truths about Jesus’ birth that’s come home more to me, is that it reveals God’s preferred style of approaching us: “which is neither grandiose nor noisy, but rather a style characterized by hiddenness and littleness.”
Have you ever heard the original lyrics of the song “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day”? Have you listened to the lyrics carefully? It’s not exactly the blissful naiveté of “Deck the Halls”. It’s much more real and raw than that. Many of us are familiar with the children’s version of the Christmas story,
If God wanted to simply tell us a message of give us an example, he could have sent someone else. The one thing he could do by coming to us, is to be with us in our suffering. In other words, he has compassion on you; he wants to be with you in what we’re
Is Jesus truly God AND Man? In this article, I want to focus on the astonishing claim that the Christian Tradition makes. And that we celebrate at Christmas. And why that really matters.
I want to share a bit of my story with you today. I grew up with a very nominal & cultural Catholic faith – one which introduced me to the external practices of the Catholic faith and religion. Regrettably, it didn’t accompany me into experiencing and developing a personal relationship with God.
Very often when we talk of prayer, we think of polite conversation with God – saying the right words, the right formulas, in a certain tone of voice and so on. But prayer in the Bible is anything, but that. Just read the Book of Psalms for example, which is full of raw emotion expressed to God as prayer. This is because an important aspect of engaging with God from the heart in prayer, is learning to be honest with what’s coming up in our hearts. In today’s Bible reading, we find another example of honesty in prayer and hear how it’s also the place where we can find intimacy with God.
How do we come to a place of mental assent and of faith?
It’s not so much as a result of hearing one clinching argument, but through a collection of indicators coming together for us.
Questions from kids about God From an 8-yr old boy: How did God come to exist? Here’s the quick answer: The question’s a really good one, because as we look around our world, everything comes to be. You came to be, I came to be. We ask, ‘When is your birthday?’ That’s the only way
Questions from kids about God From a 6-year-old boy: Why did God make bad germs? He’s asking why did God make bad germs – like viruses for example. Right now, we’re all dealing with that. We have this coronavirus and we wonder why would God have done this. Here’s one way maybe, to look at
Questions from kids about God From a 4-yr old girl: Is God bigger than an elephant? Think about this: say you’ve got a dog, a horse and an elephant – you’ve got big, bigger, biggest. That’s the way we look at the world. Now it’s not like you’ve got a dog, a horse, an elephant
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