December 2010
3 posts
“For the great and powerful of this world, there are only two places in which...”
– Dietrich Bonheoffer, God Is In the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas
HT: Qideas
While by the Sheep
Just realized that the shepherds watching their sheep at night are typological. The Messiah was to be the Good Shepherd who unlike the wicked shepherds of Israel, would care for his flock by the darkest night, even through the Valley of the Shadow of Death. These Shepherds doing their job become prophets of the Baby’s coming work.
Notes for Sunday
Each week this Advent I have been struck by the surprising, scandalous character of the Gospel story. People think Christianity is for closed minds but you have to be willing to believe almost anything, apparently, to believe in the Gospel.
Blessed are those who are not scandalized by me—Jesus in Matthew 11:6