Do you know what? If we could get our churches to see that we are to love without discrimination and that we are to give the Holy Spirit liberty to love everybody in sight through us, then we would have revival on our hands! The world would turn aside to see the...
A short list of questions we Christians need to be better about asking ourselves regarding our beliefs: How might I be wrong? How might the passion of my beliefs regarding an issue be causing me to ignore errors about my beliefs themselves? Do my beliefs about social...
We need joy as we need air. We need love as we need water. We need each other as we need the earth we share.
According to the gospels, Jesus wasn’t married. Jesus didn’t have children. People have still allowed him to lead their entire lives. The same is true for the apostle Paul and countless others in the Christian tradition. Should Joan of Arc have her sainthood revoked...
As an American patriot, I celebrate the Fourth of July with pride and gratitude. However, I distinguish this patriotism from Christian nationalism. My faith teaches me that Jesus transcends political affiliations and national boundaries. He is not the exclusive...
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. On love of God and love of neighbor hang all of the law and the prophets. And if it’s not about love—it’s not about God!
Remember all those Sunday School lessons, Vacation Bible Schools, retreats, mission trips, and worship services? Their purpose was to help shape and mature us as Christ followers so that now we can demonstrate what it looks like to be people of peace, grace, love, and...
Any love is ultimately love of God. No love can be in competition with love of God; it is merely a different expression of it . . . the deeper, the more passionate any love, the more truly it is the love of God.
Faith is precious, but it’s just the opening act for the real start of the show, which is love.
Christian nationalism relies on a theology of control, asking us to take up our swords, gavels, and politicians to secure and enforce our own power. Christianity relies on a theology of self-sacrificial love, asking us to take up our crosses and love others in the way...