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"Jesus calls us at Christmas to enter into the Kingdom of Liberty, to be set free by his Father’s love."

Advent is about an intensity of desire. It’s about deeply desiring the presence of God in our lives and our world.

Sometimes our souls need poetry. Words fashioned carefully may catch my imagination beyond the ability of charts, graphs, or reports to do so.

In a world filled with brokenness and estrangement, poverty, violence and death, we need Godbearers.

From the beginning, God has desired a relationship of love and wholeness with something other than God.

The metaphor of embrace points us to the relationship of the triune God with all of creation.

As Christ followers, in all times and seasons, but especially during Advent and Christmas, we declare to the world that we’ve seen that great light.

That is the surprise of the Beatitudes—what appears to be a source of unhappiness, turns out to be a source of joy and blessedness. 

I believe these Holy Spirit-infused moments, when the thin veil of reality billows ever so slightly and we gain a glimpse of something larger and deeper than ourselves, are the moments that form and strengthen and sustain us in...

Although email and video conferencing are effective tools, there is nothing quite like meeting face to face – praying, eating, laughing, planning, hoping, and learning together.