Follow your heart, your instincts. People might try to dissuade you from your passion, but no one can live your life but you.
04302 – Follow Your Heart
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04246 – Mocking & Dehumanizing
There’s nothing quite as disturbing as watching those who claim to follow Jesus mock and dehumanize the very people Jesus loved and even the kind of people exhibiting the same characteristics he did, like being a man who freely expressed emotions and cried. Jesus said...
04146 – Death & Resurrection
Death and resurrection. It’s the impossibility around which every other impossibility of the Christian faith orbits. Baptism declares that God is in the business of bringing dead things back to life, so if you want in on God’s business, you better prepare to follow...
04110 – Showing God’s Love to Others
Christians. I’ve checked everywhere and I cannot find the following anywhere in the Bible: Cast out the poor from you for their woes are not your responsibility. Ship them someplace else if you need to or if all else fails wall them out. Nope. Choose first your people...
04046 – Why Jesus Came to Earth
Jesus didn’t come to earth to Subjugate Dominate Manipulate Segregate Control Neither should those that follow Jesus. He came to set free (and not just spiritually).
04045 – The Most Relevant Church
I'm not all that interested in future church trends or new growth techniques. For 2000 years, the most relevant church has always been the one gathering around a table, caring for the neighborhood, following the words and ways of Jesus.
03928 – Getting Closer to the Cross
Jesus fed 5000 but only 500 followed him after lunch. He had 12 disciples but only 3 went further in the Garden, and only 1 stood with him at the Cross. The closer you get to the Cross, the smaller the crowd gets.
03903 – Be Like Jesus Christ
Just because someone plays Beethoven badly doesn't mean Beethoven was a bad composer. Just because someone lives the Christian life poorly doesn't mean that Jesus isn't worth following. God doesn't ask you to be like Christians. He asks you to be like Jesus Christ....
03827 – Making Crosses?
Christians profess that we should take up our cross and follow Jesus. Instead, we are making crosses for future generations to carry. from "Global Warming is Here and it is Getting Worse"
03648 – Following Jesus…or Not?
When our Christianity begins to look like vengeance, animosity, and hostility towards the world, rather than love, humility, and compassion, that is when we know we are following someone other than Jesus.