I’ve never found much of God in the towering hierarchy of unchecked power.
03812 – God & Power
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03794 – The Imago Dei, in Women & Men
When women are treated as equals in advancing the kingdom of God on this earth, we all flourish. The Imago Dei in the face of women is just as clear as the Imago Dei in the face of men, and the fullness of God can be made known when we live and work together to bring...
03793 – The Church is Not…
The church is not called to be the morality police of the world, legislators of holiness, or judges convicting people according to God's law. The church is not called to be a courtroom. It is called to be a sanctuary.
03792 – My Responsibility
If a person is of infinite worth in the sight of God, whether they are saint or sinner, whether they are a good person or a bad person, evil or not, if that is true, then I am never relieved of my responsibility for trying to make contact with this worthy thing in...
03788 – Jesus is Our Peace!
God didn’t intend for our peace to be based upon our commonalities or our common affinities for certain things. God never planned our peace to be based upon our preferences, dining habits, or style of dress. Jesus is our peace! And if we don’t have enough Jesus to...
03786 – “Lord, the Air Smells Good Today”
Lord, the air smells good today, straight from the mysteries within the inner courts of God. A grace like new clothes thrown across the garden, free medicine for everybody. The trees in their prayer, the birds in praise, the first blue violets kneeling. Whatever came...
03766 – The SBC is Wrong about Women
The Southern Baptist Convention is wrong. Women are worthy of God's calling and find freedom in Jesus Christ. Women are created in the image of the boundless and limitless God.
03754 – Bearing the Image of God
Through Christ's incarnation, all of humanity regains the dignity of bearing the image of God. Whoever from now attacks the least of people attacks Christ, who took on human form and who in himself has restored the image of God for all who bear a human countenance....
03753 – Pentecost and Uncertainty
In the Season of Pentecost (Liturgical churches call it "Ordinary Time") -- God called Abram to leave his home to find a new one, and Jesus called Matthew, a tax-collector, to leave his job and “follow me.” In both testaments, we heard stories of moving from...
03751 – God Designed our Bodies
God wisely designed the human body so that we can neither pat our own backs nor kick ourselves too easily.