Glory

If we long to encounter God, or simply encounter him anew, where do we start? The story of Moses glimpsing the “back” of God offers us a key to the door of this mystery.

How do we navigate deep and disorienting tragedy? When loss and sorrow shake us, how do we process the pain honestly—and still find hope?

The benefits to being a person of faith are many, but it isn’t an easy life. When our faith seems fragile, feel like we’re faking it, that we failed in some way spiritually, how do we pick up the pieces and persevere? The beautiful benediction found at the end of the book of Jude gives us all we need.

Maintaining perspective is so difficult. Just getting through the day can seem like a major accomplishment. But a healthy perspective gives us a vantage point that’s essential to living a life that prioritizes what’s truly important.

Though far from comfortable, true spiritual growth leads us into the heart of suffering, so that we may taste more fully the goodness of the hope of Christ—who was himself no stranger to pain and loss.

While we may tend to think of Advent as beginning in a manger in Bethlehem, the Apostle John reveals that it began much earlier–in the mystery of cosmic origins.