I thought God would be more pushy. I was blessed to make it through the entire Bible this year (with many missed days and many catch-up days), and the contrast in God way of relating to his people struck me. We go from fire and thunder in Exodus to the whisper of the Holy Spirit in the hearts of the first Christians. Perhaps it was more than a whisper — in Acts there are healings and miracles, rooms shaken with the wind of the Holy Spirit, people clearly moved by the will of God. Before that was the dynamic preaching and incredible healings of Christ, leading to his death with earthquakes and darkened sun and the greatest miracle of the Resurrection. But before that? Nazareth. I’m fascinated by Nazareth. Thirty years of Jesus’s life are practically unmentioned in Scripture, beyond a few events like the Flight to Egypt and...