Thinking About Jesus

My daughter is home from college for winter break, which means I’ve been watching way more episodes of What Not to Wear than I would ever watch on my own. This is the reality show on TLC in which notoriously unfashionable women are nominated by their friends to undergo a wardrobe makeover with the help of self-proclaimed experts Stacy and Clinton.

The more I watch this show, the more I wonder about what Jesus thinks of this premise. I doubt Jesus is cool with investing $5,000 on clothes ...

I bet you can easily finish the sentence in the title. Things seem to have changed drastically in the course of a couple of generations, and we can find a lot of things wrong with America today.

This is the time of year when we think about Jesus coming into the world: Emanuel. “God with us.”

The world he was born into over 2000 years ago was pretty messed up too. At the time of Jesus’ birth, Palestine had been occupied by the Roman Empire for the previous 50 years and ...

Jesus went through all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom and healing every disease and sickness. When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. (Matthew 9:35-36)

Many of us claim membership in an evangelical church—"evangelical" meaning that we believe in actively expressing and sharing the good news of salvation. I’ve been looking through ...

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In Philippians 3:8-10 Paul talks about his impressive Hebrew pedigree and how he gave it up for the infinite value of knowing Jesus as Lord.

Lately, I have been talking with some sisters about the struggle we ladies often have with putting too much value on physical appearance and buying into our culture’s twisted messages about beauty. I thought about what the good apostle might have said if, instead of a 1st-century Paul in Palestine, he was a 21st-century Pauline in the U.S.―maybe ...

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