The Temple Veil, The Withered Fig, and The Word Made Flesh
When God Tears Open Access and Calls You Through Two passages converge around Christmas’s central mystery: the Hebrews text describes the Holy Spirit revealing that the way into the Most Holy Place had not yet been disclosed as long as the first tabernacle was still functioning (Hebrews 9:8), while Mark shows Jesus cursing a fig tree—the Temple’s own symbol—because it bore only leaves. Between them stands John’s prologue: The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us (John 1:14). The Greek here is literally “tabernacled”—the Word pitched his tent…
The Word Made Flesh: Refugee, Revelation, and the Pattern of Divine Descent
How God’s Self-Emptying Love Becomes the Path We Must Walk Christmas reveals something so radical that Paul had to insist he received it “not from any human source” but “through a revelation of Jesus Christ.” The Word becomes flesh. God enters creation not as conquering force but as vulnerable infant. This is not sentimentality—it is the fundamental pattern of how divine power actually works in the world, and therefore how transformation happens in you. When Matthew shows us the holy family fleeing to Egypt, when John describes the Word descending…
The Word Made Flesh: From Exile to Homecoming
How Christmas Reveals Your True Citizenship and the End of All Separation Christmas is not sentiment. It is cosmic invasion, the moment when the eternal Word who spoke creation into being takes on the very flesh He formed. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made (John 1:1-3). This is where we must begin: the Logos who structures all reality, in whom the scattered fragments of…
The Word Made Flesh in Flight and Solidarity
How God’s Descent into Darkness Becomes Your Path to Transformation The Christmas story refuses sentimentality. Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, “Rise, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt, and remain there until I tell you, for Herod is about to search for the child, to destroy him” (Matthew 2:13). Before Jesus can walk, he is a refugee. Before he can speak, he knows the terror of being hunted. The Incarnation—the Word became flesh…
The Epiphany of Divine Adoption
When God’s Self-Emptying Becomes Your Fullness Something extraordinary happens when these three texts converge on Christmas: Paul’s declaration that God sent His Son *born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those under the law* (Galatians 4:4-5), Matthew’s magi following a star to worship an infant king, and John’s cosmic hymn that *the Word became flesh and dwelt among us* (John 1:14). What emerges is not merely the story of Jesus’s birth but the revelation of how divine kenosis—God’s self-emptying love—creates the possibility for your own adoption into…
The Greater Horizon 