Sublime

You’ll also see in these pages hints at the intersection of ancient Jewish wisdom and neuroscience, psychology, and evolutionary biology.

For a wise articulation of this point, see Michael Horton, Ordinary: Sustainable Faith in a Radical, Restless World (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2014).

Here is one who was so conditioned and organized within himself that he became a perfect instrument for the embodiment of a set of ideals—ideals of such dramatic potency that they were capable of changing the calendar, rechanneling the thought of the world, and placing a…

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Jesus says, “Whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me.” To claim that humility is based in the confession that “I’m the kind of creature who needs others” is to assert that we are fundamentally hypostatic beings.

Our deeper nature is simply what’s left when we put down the endless task of trying to be somebody.”

precisely by living though our own breakdowns and breakthroughs we are initiated into the same living tradition that vitalized them.

Discipleship isn’t information transfer but behavioral transformation,

Our Christian wisdom is to name the darkness as darkness, and the Light as light, and to learn how to live and work in the Light so that the darkness does not overcome us.