We Christians can be sure that we are listening to Caesar more than Jesus when our political witness looks more like a sword and a gavel than a washbasin and a cross.
02945 – Listening to Caesar vs. Jesus
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02932 – Elevating & Empowering Women
When Jesus was taken to be executed on the cross, 11 of the 12 men abandoned him, but the women stayed. When Jesus’ body was buried, the women were the first ones at his grave. When Jesus rose from the dead, the men were hiding, so the women announced his...
02919 – Pick Up a Cross, Not a Flag
To follow Jesus, his disciples deny themselves as part of self-mortification--not cultural assimilation. They pick up a cross--not a flag.
02843 – Washing Feet? Or Waging War?
I've been watching people with golden crosses around their necks and on their lapels shout at the TV about how serving gay and lesbian people is a violation of their “sincerely-held religious beliefs.” And I can't help but laugh at the sad irony of it. Two-thousand...
02746 – Our Wants vs. God’s Wants
We want the war horse.Jesus rides a donkey. We want the eagle.The Holy Spirit descends as a dove. We want to take up swords.Jesus takes up a cross. We want the roaring lion.God comes as a slaughtered lamb. We keep trying to arm God.God keeps trying to disarm...
02744 – What the Cross is About
The cross is not where God inflicts violence on Jesus in order to vent his wrath; the cross is where God in Christ endures human inflicted violence and forgives it all. The cross is not where Jesus saves us from God, but where Jesus reveals God as Savior.
02733 – God Came Down
We thought, if there is to be business between us and God, we must somehow get up to God. Then God came down, down to the level of the cross.
02395 – New Paradigm of Imagery for God
The God imaged by Jesus exerts no dominating supremacy. In Christ, we see an image of a God who is not armed with lightning bolts but with basin and towel, who spewed not threats but good news for all, who rode not a warhorse but a donkey, weeping in compassion for...
02279 – Tragically Flawed by Our Self-Centeredness
The scriptural telling begins with how tragically flawed we are by our self-centeredness – Adam blaming Eve, Cain bashing Abel – and how slow we are to realize it – Samson with Delilah, David with Bathsheba.... But one day a man named Jesus appeared out of nowhere who...
02250 -Not Defending White Supremacy
There are simply no gospel grounds for defending White Supremacy. None. This isn't theological rocket science. The Savior of the world gave himself on the cross for our sins to deliver us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God & Father,...