It’s hard to remember that Jesus did not come to make us safe, but rather to make us disciples, citizens of God’s new age, a kingdom of surprises.
00420 – Making Us Disciples
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00417 – Spiritual Journeying
When we give ourselves to spiritual journeying, we soon realize that God always invites us beyond where we are.
00409 – God Is My Hobby?
I don’t want you to go away with the impression that there’s any—you know—any inconveniences involved in the religious life. I mean a lot of people don’t take it up just because they think it’s going to involve a certain amount of nasty application and...
00408 – Believe It? Then Do It!
The Scriptures very clearly have a “bias toward action.” Simply put, the word of God tells us that if you don’t do it, you in fact have not heard it and do not believe it (see Matthew 21: 28-32; James 1: 22-25).
00407 – Experiencing God Includes Discipleship
God wants us to adjust our lives to Him so He can do through us what He wants to do. God is not our servant to make adjustment to our plans. We are His servants, and we adjust our lives to what He is about to do and to His ways of doing it. If we will not submit God...
00405 – “Catching Fire” on Our Journey with God
On our soul-tending journey, our ultimate desire is for our lives with God to “catch fire” in such a way that we can set ablaze the spiritual lives of others. The challenge is to move beyond our traditional understanding of “being Christian” and enter together young...
00402 – Born-Again Means New Life
Being born-again is a new life, not of perfection but of striving, stretching, and searching—a life of intimacy with God through the Holy Spirit. There must first be an emptying and then refilling. To the extent that we want to know, understand and experience God, we...
00401 – Being “Born-Again”
Jesus was not interested in making people religious, but leading them to a loving relationship with himself, and therefore with God. He offered forgiveness and healing to sin-sick souls as the basis of new life, opening up a path of discipleship, compassion and...
00400 – Embracing God’s Love for Us
Conversion is a lifelong process of letting God remove the scales from our eyes so that we can more and more embrace the reality of God’s overwhelming love for us.
00391 – The Only Solution is Love
We cannot love God unless we love each other, and to love we must know each other. We know [Christ] in the breaking of bread, and we know each other in the breaking of bread, and we are not alone anymore. Heaven is a banquet, too, even with a crust, where there is...