If you are reading this, you've been given another day. Perhaps only one," Piper writes, referring to James 4:15. "To all of France," he adds, "the hands of Jesus are extended." ...

One night his old nurse since childhood is washing his feet, as every guest would have been extended this ... Christian messiah, Jesus, is the King whose love-scarred hands reveal everything ...

At times when Jesus encounters those who refuse the divine hand extended to them, his gentle ways turn confrontational and urgent (e.g., Mt 23). But for those who are earnestly seeking the Holy ...