The light you see by. The Word the code is written in. The bread beneath the hunger. Connections between the deep structure of reality and the King who claims to be underneath it all.
The ideaChrist is not one object in the universe to be examined alongside the others. The claim of the Gospel is that he is underneath them, the light we see by, the Word the code is written in, the bread beneath our hunger, the spring beneath our thirst, the life inside the buried seed, the gold in the broken thing. Look closely enough at almost anything, and you find his fingerprints.
“And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.”
Colossians 1:17
The essays
Christ and the Physics of LightLight is the one thing you never look at, and the reason you can see everything else. Jesus said, I am the light of the world.
Christ and the Code of the UniverseReality is written in language. DNA is a code; physics is mathematics. John says the Word was in the beginning, and the Word became flesh.
Christ and the Biology of HungerYou were built to need, daily, and unable to store enough to never need again. Jesus said, I am the bread of life.
Christ and the Water That Never EndsWater is the strangest necessary substance in the universe, and thirst is more urgent than hunger. Jesus offered a well that springs up from inside.
Christ and the Law of the SeedNature's deepest law is death into life: a seed must be buried and cease to be a seed to become a harvest. Days before his cross, Jesus pointed at one.
Christ and the Glory of ScarsIn kintsugi, a broken bowl is mended with gold and made more beautiful than when it was whole. The risen Christ kept his wounds.
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Come and see
If Christ is underneath even this, he is worth looking at directly. The Living Bread is a quiet place to explore Jesus, read the Scriptures, ask honest questions, and pray, at your own pace. It is only a doorway. He is the reason the door exists.