Dinner and a Bible, aka the funny things my kids say in front of Jesus.

Keep an open mind with honest questions. Questions where the truth is yet to be found not questions that provide framework for a predisposition.

As a people, we have a hard time listening because throwing criticisms are easier.

Virgin birth is not an impossibility just highly improbable. If you think about it, miracles by definition is an improbable event. So celebrate Christmas as it was meant, “a miracle from God” and rejoice.

A difficult scripture with a double edge. Violent men (the Pharisees and King Herod) wanted Jesus’s Kingdom. Unfortunately violent men also spread Christianity via the Roman and Medieval Nobility. Sigh, but Jesus was one of wisdom and only once used violence in action against merchants who made money for the Temple Leaders..

Everything is relative. Watch the power struggle of leaders. Sleep well knowing Jesus is waiting for his faithful servant.

We tend to think we know better. As we experience success, it gets worse. So it was with Adam and Eve. The Tribes that followed Moses out of Egypt. The Church leaders of Jesus’s days. We need to chill. Open to the power of not knowing. Also called, “faith.”

One of my favorite scriptures. Would you climb a roof and tear up tiles for a chance for a friend, not you, to meet Jesus?

God’s time is geological. Slow to us, but normal to him. The issue of long pauses includes increased comfort in the power of self.

Supplemental reading, “Outliers” by Gladwell. Chapter 5, the strength of fighting for every inch.

Why is silence socially feared? We talk to the kids about this and having a firm foundation of confidence.