Living Beyond A Culture of Fear
Jaques Ellul said: “The more security and guarantees we want against things, the less free we are. Tyrants are not to be feared today, but our own frantic need of security is…Helen Keller observed, “Security is mostly a superstition…”
The Centrality of the Resurrected Jesus
We are invited to a Jesus-centric spirituality- a whole-life discipleship- an all encompassing transformation that relies on the central reality of our belief- of Jesus as Lord and Messiah. But without His resurrection His lordship over our lives would be nothing more than a religious facade…
Pure Scum (Book Review)
Mike Sares and his church, Scum of the Earth, offer us a message of hope that maybe we don’t have to live in a spiritually toxic churchianity- maybe there is something true and real to following Jesus beyond the shiny plastic shellac of our Sunday smiles and proper prayers…
Turning a Deaf Ear to the ‘American Way’
We tried to imitate [Jesus] in the 1960s…When I was a teenager I thought this meant going barefooted and having long hair. Today I’m finding that the call to discipleship is more expensive. It demands that I turn a deaf ear to the seductive force of materialism and the ‘American Way’…
Whole-Life Christian Faith: Out of the Box
Jesus calls us to…a spirituality that is incarnated…Will we go beyond the four walls of our comfortable Christianity and start living as disciples of Jesus? As Garrison Keillor has said: “Give up your good Christian life and follow Christ”…
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