Enticed Through Love
God always entices you through love. You were probably taught that God would love you if and when you changed. In fact, God loves you so that you can change.…
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Not If, But When
As I have often said, salvation is not a question of if, but when. Once you see with God’s eyes, you will see all things and enjoy all things in…
Love and Suffering
In the practical order of life, if we have never loved deeply or suffered deeply, we are unable to understand spiritual things at any depth. Any healthy and “true” religion…
The Big Thing
I would insist that the foundation of Jesus’s social program is what I will call non-idolatry, or the withdrawing of your enthrallment from all kingdoms except the Kingdom of God.…
Infinite Grace for All
As long as you operate inside any scarcity model, there will never be enough God or grace to go around. Jesus came to undo our notions of scarcity and tip…
Outdoing Sin With Love
The church was meant to be an alternative society in the grip of an altogether different story line. Restorative justice is used in new Zealand as the primary juvenile justice…
Restorative Justice
Such bad theology has its roots in organizing a worldview around the retributive notion of justice, as we discussed earlier, distinguishing it from restorative justice (a fancy term for healing).…
Very Good
Christianity’s true and unique story line has always been incarnation. If creation is “very good” (Genesis 1:34) at its very inception, how could such a divine agenda ever be undone…
The Ultimate Nonviolent One
God is the ultimate nonviolent one, so we dare not accept any theory of salvation that is based on violence, exclusion, social pressure, or moral coercion. When we do, these…
That Good
We all need to know that God does not love us because we are that good; God loves us because God is good. Nothing humans can do will inhibit, direct,…