The Weekly Update – Nov 17th, 2025
I have been enjoying reading ‘Gentle and Lowly’ – The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers’ by Dane Ortlund. Here are some extracts I have been blessed with:
“ Jesus is the most understanding person in the universe. The posture most natural to him is not a pointed finger but open arms.”
“ Matthew 11 tells us explicitly who qualifies for fellowship with Jesus: ‘all who labor and are heavy laden.’ . Your very burden is what qualifies you to come.”
“ Time and again it is the morally disgusting, the socially revived, the inexcusable and undeserving, who do not simply receive Christ’s mercy but to whom Christ most naturally gravitates. He is, by his enemies’ testimony, the ‘friend of sinners’.”
“… When Jesus Christ sees the fallenness of the world all about him, his deepest impulse, his most natural instinct, is to move towards that sin and suffering, not away from it.”
“ The same one who reached out and touched lepers puts his arm around us today when we feel misunderstood and sidelined.”
Photo by Yukki: Night fall over the Allier River, Vichy- Central France