Giving Up the Search for God (Second Sunday of Advent)

“The New Testament is not about our journey toward God. It’s about what Karl Barth calls ‘the journey of the Son of God to the far country.’ And when the incarnate Son arrives in this far country, what does he find?”

-Fleming Rutledge, Advent

“At Calvary [Jesus] demonstrated that the weakness of God that is more powerful than mere mortals, and…