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The Christian voice in politics

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….is often the hardest voice for me to listen to. Some of you will read that title and not want to read what follows. We shy away from these conversations because they never seem to go well. Someone usually leaves offended or hurt or confused. So, I’ll say upfront, that this isn’t really a post about politics. But it’s the political conversation that has me praying and searching for truth. Seeking God for his heart in it all, rather than what just seems right. God’s truth is steadfast and eternal. But he is a living and active presence in this […]

The hardest way to receive life

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Is to die. I’ve mentioned before how we worship in homes with several other families. It’s a very intentional gathering centered on simple worship, togetherness, openness, and mutual learning and leading. We love it. There’s intimacy, confessions, children opening their hearts, testimonies of God’s faithfulness, and worship through song and prayer and dance. The worship and community isn’t contained to Sunday. It’s carried through the week as we interact with each other and encourage one another in our efforts to engage those around us with love and grace. Life happens in this community. And where there is life, there is […]

What does death look like in the living?

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I’m clinging tight to Jesus in these days approaching the cross. I know this Easter story. It’s etched on my heart. But I cling, not because I’m afraid of Jesus dying (I know what follows Good Friday)….but that he calls me to die with him. If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me and for the gospel will save it. These words of Jesus are strong. They cut right through our “Christians have […]

But what about you?

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As I seek a raw Jesus, my hope is to hear him and see him in new and more truthful ways. We all have ideas and images of who Jesus is and what he came to do — inherited from family and religious communities, shaped and distorted by particular influences and experiences, and honed by God. It’s difficult to step outside of these preconceived ideas – some truthful, some not. But I want to know him. To see him for who he really is. So I open the gospels. For here, living and breathing in these words is his story. […]

Oh to love like him

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1 John 4 teaches us about God’s love. And ours. This is how God showed his love among us; He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is how God showed his love among us: He sent. He actively came searching for all that was lost to him. This is the redemptive mission of our Creator. He goes searching. From the moment man left God, God went looking. “Where are you?” he says to the ones who hid in shame. He goes searching. For the sole righteous man to spare from […]