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...
Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
For people to truly hear what we say about Jesus they must first see that we live like Jesus. from The Heart of Revelation
Sometimes it bothers me, the number of people who can quote my songs, or they can quote the songs of several different people, but they can't quote the Scriptures, as if anything a musician might have to say would be worth listening to. Really, I mean, what musicians...
The story of Exodus begins with powerful Pharaoh's fear over a Great Replacement. "Look, the Israelite people are more numerous and more powerful than we" (Exodus 1:9). In the face of changing demographics, the tyrant turned first to violence and genocide.
I've been watching people with golden crosses around their necks and on their lapels shout at the TV about how serving gay and lesbian people is a violation of their “sincerely-held religious beliefs.” And I can't help but laugh at the sad irony of it. Two-thousand...
You are the books you read, the movies you watch, the music you listen to, the people you spend time with, the conversations you engage in. Choose wisely what you feed your mind.
Some of the most generous people have no money. Some of the wisest people have no education. Some of the kindest people were hurt the most.
Christianity isn't meant to simply be believed; it's meant to be lived, shared, eaten, spoken, and enacted in the presence of other people.