Year: 2017

Christian Bragging?

Most of us don’t like to be around braggarts.  Their subtle and often not so subtle references to their achievements, their status, their latest and greatest purchase, the size of their portfolio, their brilliance (and that of their extremely gifted children) can cause us to inwardly cringe, look for the closest exit, or excuse ourselves …

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How to Enlarge God?!

As we have been thinking through the first chapter of the Gospel according to Luke, a statement in Mary’s Magnificat struck me as quite puzzling when I first began to ponder it:  “My soul magnifies (literally- “enlarges”) the Lord!”  How in the world can we enlarge God – the Creator and Sustainer of all things …

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