Sukkot begins at sundown this Friday. John 7 and 8 happen inside that week — and once you know what the feast actually involved, the famous sayings stop being a string of quotations and become a Man standing up in the middle of a national ceremony and shouting, this is me.
There is a kind of woman who has learned the hours. She knows which time of day the street is empty. She knows which aisle to take, which gathering to skip, which relative not to sit near,…
“You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.” Psalm 16:11
“The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.” John 10:10
“Looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of…
“A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.” Proverbs 17:22
“Though the fig tree should not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines, the produce of the olive fail and the fields yield no food, the flock be cut off from the fold and there be no herd in…
“Until now you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full.” John 16:24
“Then God said, ‘Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.’” Genesis 1:26
“Though you have not seen him, you love him. Though you do not now see him, you believe in him and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory, obtaining the outcome of…
The author
I write about the words we thought we knew, and the God who keeps turning out to be kinder than we expected.
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The books
Volume One · The words we thought we knew
Grace. Love. Faith. Heart. The most familiar words in the Christian vocabulary, taken back to the Greek they were written in.
The Prophetic Geography of Jesus’ Ministry
Where Jesus went was never incidental. A reading of the ministry through the map it was walked on.