God became man to turn creatures into sons: not simply to produce better men of the old kind but to produce a new kind of man. C.S. Lewis   The mystery of Christ, that He sunk Himself into our flesh, is beyond all human understanding. Martin Luther I am obsessed by the Incarnation of Christ. Literally, I am often in my car, on a walk, or praying and will be struck by the amazing reality that God took on flesh. A chorus that I use to sing at the International House of Prayer in Atlanta during devotional sets would go: “The Word took on flesh and bone, the Father and the Son are one, worthy is the Lamb [...]

Let’s be honest. It has been the hardest year of our entire lives. I’m not even exaggerating. On top of the regular ups and downs of mission work, intervening in some lives of teens we work with, financially living by faith, we also lost our son Elijah, and the past months have not been without their trouble. Along the journey of asking “why” (a question that God’s been getting most of Earth’s history), I’ve found myself (numerous times) trying to remind God that we’re His friends. We don’t feel that God is the causation of our pain, but like anyone who goes through pain, the reality is that the Almighty, sovereign, Creator of the Universe allowed [...]