Lord, we thank you that we can come to you just as we are. But remind us that we dare not leave just as we came.
04184 – Just As We Are
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03728 – Transformation
Transformation has little to do with intelligence, willpower, or perfection. It has everything to do with honest humility, willingness, and surrender.
03595 – Embracing Grief & Mourning
We don't need to be joined at the head with a person experiencing grief; we need to be joined at the heart. The transformation of our culture into one that embraces grief and mourning as natural and necessary parts of human life is my vision. from Companioning the...
03280 – To Pray is to Change
To pray is to change. Prayer is the central avenue God uses to transform us. If we are unwilling to change, we will abandon prayer as a noticeable characteristic of our lives. The closer we come to the heartbeat of God, the more we see our need and the more we desire...
03124 – A Bogus Version of the Gospel?
Christians are usually sincere and well-intentioned people until you get to any real issues of ego, control, power, money, pleasure, and security. Then they tend to be pretty much like everybody else. We often are given a bogus version of the Gospel, some fast-food...
03123 – Literalism…or Not
[On finding depth of meaning and experiencing transformation in Scripture: literal or *literary* truth…] If literalism is your bridge to Jesus, if it is the only way you access Jesus, then I promise you: I am not trying to take it away from you. I just hope that you...
02881 – Mess Like This
In the Christian tradition Pentecost is not a polite occasion. It was full of fire, wind, confusion, and a diversity of linguistic utterance. It was a divine mess. And all of this led to healing and transformation. We need more mess like this.
02739 – Being Christlike
Genocide is biblical.Loving your enemy is biblical.But only one is Christlike.Slavery is biblical.Chain-breaking is biblical.But only one is Christlike. Patriarchy is biblical.Counter-cultural elevation of women is biblical.But only one is Christlike. Retributive...
02631 – Inner Transformation: God’s Work
When we genuinely believe that inner transformation is God's work and not ours, we can put to rest our passion to set others straight. from Celebration of Discipline
02513 – Do We “Get It”?
The absolute religious genius of Jesus is that he utterly refuses all debt codes, purity codes, religious quarantines, and the searching for sinners. He refuses the very starting point of historic religions. He refuses to divide the world into the pure and the impure,...