God does not cause the pain and the hurt, but God is present with it. This is incarnation: God joining us in our flesh, often messy and unkempt, celebrating and suffering alongside us. God does not cause evil, nor does God “allow” it in the way we understand control (i.e. meticulous sovereignty). God does, however, co-opt evil and non-good, turning dust, ash, and decay into something beautiful.
Tag Archives: Incarnation
Dedicating the Visual Media
From stone tablets to Apple tablets, the Word of God has always been known with whatever technology is available.
From an oral tradition to the incarnation, from parables to epistles, from hand written scrolls to hymns that rip off bar tunes, from Gutenberg’s printing press to google.com. This Word made flesh dwells among us, in the midst of (and sometimes as) our blog posts and status updates and hashtags and push notifications.
Jesus is a moonwalking bear
The gospel of John opens with its infamous “In the beginning” and concludes with its equally infamous “The word became flesh and made his dwelling among us.” Yet between these two axioms lies this phrase: He was in the world and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. In [...]
