Jesus, our savior, is the one who took the millstone around his own neck on the cross, and in doing so extends God’s infinite grace to all...
Read MoreIf you want to be before all others, then step to the back of the line. If you want to be lifted up, then fall to your knees.
Read MoreSuffering, rejection, and death. These are what the Son of God will subject himself to. These are divine things.
Read More“Be opened.” Jesus says this not only to the deaf man but also to the disciples, who have not been able to hear what Jesus has been trying to teach them about grace...
Read MoreLiberty is not about freedom from something—restraints or restrictions—but freedom for something—namely, our neighbor.
Read MoreElijah can flee into the furthest reaches of an arid wasteland, but even there the voice of the Lord will call him and the hand of the Lord will uphold him.
Read MoreAs the bread of life, Jesus satisfies the universal hunger and thirst to be known, to be forgiven, to be loved, and to belong.
Read MoreJesus utterly rejects all offers of worldly power. He will not be Caesar, however much we want him to be. He would literally rather die,
Read MoreThe power of the cross is the power to create community where before there was only mistrust and misunderstanding.
Read MoreEven as sin and death appear triumphant in the present, the kingdom of God is already breaking upon the world.
Read MoreEven when there is profound resistance to the Gospel, the Holy Spirit is still at work.
Read MoreDespite all opposition and all attempts at holding it back, the kingdom of God will continue to break in upon the world, and lives will continue to be transformed as a result.
Read MoreTo trust in God is to pray, to pray is to hope, and to hope is to live as though our hope has already been fulfilled…because it has.
Read MoreThe places in our lives where we experience brokenness are the very places in which God is actively at work.
Read MoreWhat to the religious authorities appeared demonic, and what to Jesus’ own family was cause to fear for his sanity, was nothing less than God’s crazy love.
Read MoreSuffering and death are not signs of God’s absence but rather means through which God speaks, for God is no stranger to suffering or to death.
Read MoreTo live according to the flesh is to labor under the expectation that we can climb our way up to God by doing things that God approves of.
Read MoreEvangelism is simply sharing how God has moved in your life. We all have a story to share.
Read MoreThe Gospel of Jesus Christ is wonderfully weird, especially when set against the ways of the world.
Read MoreTo abide in the love of Jesus is simply to trust that we are who Jesus says that we are—his friends.
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