Fire and Shadow: Jude's Urgent Warning

Jude wanted to write a different letter.

He'd planned something encouraging—a meditation on "the salvation we share," perhaps, or a celebration of what God had accomplished in Christ. The kind of letter you write to friends on ordinary days.

But ordinary days ended.

"Dear friends, although I was very eager to write to you about the salvation we share, I felt compelled to write and urge you to contend for the faith that was once for all entrusted to God's holy people."