Denial is a favo­rite method of coping for many Chris­tians. But not with Jesus. He wants truth in the inmost being, and to get it there he’s got to take us into our inmost being. One way he’ll do this is by brin­ging up an old memory. You’ll be dri­ving down the road and sud­denly remem­ber something from your childhood. Or maybe you’ll have…

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Guys are una­ni­mously emba­rras­sed by their emp­ti­ness and woun­ded­ness; it is for most of us a tre­men­dous source of shame, as I’ve said. But it need not be. From the very begin­ning, back before the Fall and the assault, ours was meant to be a des­pe­ra­tely depen­dent exis­tence. It’s like a tree and its branches, explains Christ. You are the branches, I am the…

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