Be Complete – Feb. 9, 2023

“The imagery of inviting all parts of ourselves home, back to the table like the prodigal son, lies at the heart of the Aramaic sense of what it means to be perfect.” –Neil Douglas-Klotz, The Hidden Gospel, p. 129 

The Upside-Down Way

Jesus turns the usual ways of the world—the standards by which we have learned to order our lives—upside down. We have been taught competition over cooperation, revenge over reconciliation, leading over following, enhancing our importance over humbly submitting to one another. When we attend a function, we have learned to scan the room and find […]