When Love Bends Down: Images of the Christ Who Meets Us Where We Are

by Michael E. Lodahl

Book Overview

Throughout the Gospel of John, we see images of Christ who bends low to the ground in order to reach others. In When Love Bends Down, author Michael Lodahl examines four specific passages in the Gospel of John-Jesus scrawling in the dust, making mud from spittle to smear on a blind man's eyes, washing His disciple's feet, and cooking breakfast for his disciples-and shows how these help illustrate the fundamental truth that God was willing to bend...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0834122200
• ISBN13: 9780834122208
• Release Date: July 2006
• Publisher: Beacon Hill Press of Kansas City
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

all about love

This book gave me a new insight about Jesus and his love for people. His grace wasn't only about saving people from their sins, and so fulfilling some ancient plan that he and his father concocted before time began. He bent down physically, making himself less threatening in situations with real people ~ the woman caught in adultry, the man whose eyes he healed. And he lowered himself to the position of servant and washed his disciples feet. He often bent down to show us life from a different perspective. He used dirt and spit and a towel and water to teach us how to love more effectively. I relate to that~ the using of physical things to understand life better. I didn't enjoy the last section of the book where the author recapped nearly everything he had already said and took it to a more theological discussion. But that's probably because I don't like theology. And that's ok because the author wasn't writing the book just for me. The book was very good. It taught me new things about God's love and how to love other people more effectively.

Jesus Looks into our Eyes

Lodahl has captured a wonderful visual point of view from the heart of Jesus; the stories show how the worst of sinners can receive His grace and eternal life. Christ meets our needs using the dust of the earth to write his message to all. Easy read while touching the heart as Jesus looks into our eyes on our level.