Jesus says the commandment to love God with everything you’ve got, and to love your neighbor as yourself is important than any other law or religious ordinance. It would be a relief if it weren’t actually impossible in practice.
Read MoreWe tend to think of spirituality like fast food—we order something, we get it, and then we’re better people. The Jesus Way is different—it’s more slow food. A lifelong path of being healed from the inside out.
Read MoreOne of the biggest obstacles people can have to church, faith, God, are the behavior of Christians and their portrayal of God.
Read MoreJesus knows the things that, below the surface, gnaw at our souls, the things that enslave us. In this case it’s money.
Read MoreJesus is pretty hardcore when it comes to divorce. But he's also pretty hardcore when it comes to the joy and blessing of marriage.
Read MoreHarsh words from Jesus this week, including images of dismemberment and everlasting fire. But these are intended to underline a sense of spiritual urgency.
Read MoreWe see greatness as something achieved, and something to be held over others. Jesus says that greatness is giving all that away in loving service to others.
Read MoreFollowing Jesus is cross-shaped: it means a willingness to give up everything to inherit the only thing that matters.
Read MoreHere Jesus doesn't look too good. Even so, this is a pivotal point where Jesus' ministry extends beyond insiders and the so-called "unclean."
Read More“It doesn’t matter what I think about Assisted Death. And frankly, it doesn’t matter what you think about it either. What matters is that we are called by God to confront the reality of our own mortality in the context of the cross which tells us that death is not something to be feared.”
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