As we prepare for the birth of Christ, I think it fitting to share a blog post which I published at this time last year reflecting on Jesus’s mother Mary and her song of praise, the Magnificat.  Mary’s words remain radical even today.  Christmas blessings to you, +GOB I’ve heard the Magnificat, the Song of…

“Thank God I don’t have to go to church anymore.” It might surprise you, but that’s what I told myself when I went away to college. Yet through the rather sly intervention of a dear woman who (although I didn’t know it at the time) had been praying fervently for me, I went off on…

If there is any word that in fact describes the active, present-day living priesthood of Jesus, the One who “always lives to make intercession” for us (Heb. 7:25), the one who stands before the throne of the Godhead praying on our behalf, it is the word “shepherd.” This word describes one who, by the very…