Birth
What beautiful reminders we’ve had this week of the anticipation and birth of the One who reconciles and makes Himself known to us. How telling that He didn’t just appear, but was carried in the womb of an ordinary woman chosen to birth Him. Every single one of us birth something. For some, it’s little […]
A Second Rebirth
Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” John 3:3 I knew these words as a young teenager. I could quote them for you and show you where they were highlighted on the pages of my New Testament. These words were what […]
The Great Author Wrote Himself into the Story
No one likes to watch a scene in a movie where a woman is giving birth. Have you ever noticed that? No one. This semester in a seminary class filled with grown adults there was squirming in every single seat as our professor scrambled to fast forward to the next scene in a documentary he […]
A Story of Hope and Grace
I was a young twenty-something single woman working on a team in the Northern Region of Ghana doing literacy work among the Dagomba. It was the summer of 1996. Our military-looking Land Rover was bouncing along the dusty ‘washboard’ road on our way to the celebration of a newly-translated Bible in the beautiful Volta Region, […]