Salvation

What makes a person truly generous? Jesus’ encounter with Zacchaeus, a man who’d devoted much of his life to accumulating wealth, status, and power, reveals the heart of generosity. Through experiencing Jesus’ surprising and costly generosity, Zacchaeus was freed to become a radically generous person himself.

The life of David reveals that our greatest achievements are defined only by God’s victory and our greatest failures only by God’s forgiveness.

At the end of Acts, the gospel’s message reaches the imagined ends of the earth, the city of Rome. Here Paul prepares to plant the future of the church, a community built on the extreme hope of Christ’s message for all people in all times.

Jesus teaches not only that the gospel is for everyone, but also that it is for every moment of our lives. We are never so late, or so lost, that the hope of Christ cannot find us and fill us with a life-changing gratitude.

As Jesus’ life neared its end, his disciples worried about what would come next. Jesus’ answer that he alone is “the way” is not some theoretical truth, but rather a deeply loving and practical response to the doubts of our hearts.

Simeon’s Song celebrates a God who draws near to us in order to draw us out from a place of fear and weakness, just as he models in the life and faith of Mary.