The news is not goodBut I got out of bed The news is not goodBut I'll kiss your little head The news is not goodBut we're watching cartoons The news is not goodBut, "Look, there's the moon"! The news is not goodBut this is your one childhood The news is not goodBut...
Years of love have been forgot,In the hatred of a minute.
Faith was never meant to be an evacuation plan. It’s meant to be a transformation plan. It’s not about dodging earth’s problems, but about showing up with love and actually doing something about them.
People are all about using the Bible to make laws until they get to the words of Jesus... "Love your enemies.""The first shall be last.""Lay down your sword.""Set the oppressed free.""You cannot serve God and money.""Sell all your possessions and give the money to the...
Do not ask for love from your neighbor, for if you ask and he does not respond, you will be troubled. Instead, show your love for your neighbor and you will be at rest, and so will bring your neighbor to love....
Slowly appreciation swells to astonishment. And we enter the dialogue of our lives that is beyond all understanding or conclusion. It is mystery. It is love of God. It is obedience.
We cultivate love when we allow our most vulnerable and powerful selves to be deeply seen and known, and when we honor the spiritual connection that grows from that offering with trust, respect, kindness and affection.
If your Christianity causes you to mock people with disabilities... If your Christianity causes you to mock the genuine expressions of emotion and love... If your Christianity causes you to mock men who cry... Your Christianity has nothing to do with Jesus.
When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendor of the past; when faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority...
It is not the task of the church to "Make America Great Again." The contemporary task of the church is to make Christianity countercultural again. And once we untether Jesus from the interests of empire, we begin to see just how countercultural and radical Jesus'...