Merry Christmas! And for the New Year...?

Thanks to all who have been participating in our blog. Grace and peace, love and blessings, and encouragement and hope from God our Father through Christ Jesus his Son by God the Spirit who indwells us--now, thorughout the New Year, and always!
Any thoughts for how better to use our blog in 2007? Please post 'em!
I thank our God every time I think of you!

We Have Seen His Glory

With LeRoy moderating, we're looking at Peterson's section on "The Glory," pp. 99-108. It is worth noting that this is in the section on Creation--I'm not sure we typically make the connection between God's glory and God's creation.
I was struck by P's connecting glory and the Cross: "But this glory must now be reimaged and received and entered into as Jesus reveals it: Jesus ignorable, Jesus unimpressive, Jesus dismissed, Jesus marginal, Jesus suffering, Jesus rejected, Jesus derided, Jesus hung on a cross, and--the final and irrefutable indignity--Jesus dead and buried. All this is included in the content of 'we beheld his glory'" (p. 101).
Kinda changes the way I think about "the Glorious Church"...