Columns // Jesus (Re)Centered0
Inviting people to embrace the kingdom of God where Christ is worshiped as King is a community event, not a private, spiritual experience. The Church, as the primary expression of Jesus’ kingdom on earth, is called to live out the…Read More→
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Asking people to make a decision to have their sins forgiven, but spending little time calling them to become disciples, is like telling someone a small part of a story, while leaving them to figure out the rest on their…Read More→
Columns // Jesus (Re)Centered2
One of the reasons people decide to leave Christianity is that for far too long we’ve painted a picture of faith that is largely disconnected from life in the here and now. For many people, Christianity has become an other-worldly…Read More→
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I recently finished reading Matthew’s account of the Jesus-story, specifically the last three chapters. I’ve read this section many times before and have been moved in a slightly different way each time. However, here are two things that stood out…Read More→
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“There’s a big difference between stillness and doing nothing.” – Mr.Han, The Karate Kid (2010). I love that. You see, in a culture where multitasking is seen as an admired skill and where more and more people choose not to…Read More→
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“For the love of God is broader than the measure of man’s mind; And the heart of the Eternal is most wonderfully kind.” This stanza from the hymn, There’s a Wideness, written more than a century ago by Frederick W….Read More→
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Have you ever lived through a difficult period in life? Or, maybe you’re going through one right now. Odds are, at one point or another, we all will travel through a ‘dark night of the soul.’ Maybe it will be……Read More→
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I always thought I had come to know too much about God to ever walk away from the faith, until a trigger event happened and everything changed. My theology of suffering was strong, but that meant little when I came…Read More→
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When you think about God, what picture comes to mind? For so many of us, we picture God as someone who is inclined to be against us, not for us. We picture God as someone who is always looking for…Read More→
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When we understand that the Jesus-story is the long-awaited fulfillment of Israel’s story, salvation immediately takes on an ancient, prophetic, and shared dimension. We quickly realize that faith didn’t begin with us. This is the faith that was once for…Read More→