We do not need rules. What we need is a Ruler. The Lordship of Jesus Christ has nothing to do with following the rules and everything to do with following the Ruler.
The mark of a spiritual person, in the tradition of Jesus, is not in some kind of super spirituality but in the holiness of their humanity.
Forms and rituals and motions can be good things until they become the main things, denying the dynamics they were created to cultivate.
We are not in debt because of our sins. We are in debt because of sin.
My faith in the working of God who raised Jesus from the dead must translate into my faith in the working of God who raised me from the dead.
The fundamental shift so desperately needed in our discipleship today is the movement from what we need God to do for us to moving out in faith on what God has already done.
This way is found in Jesus, who is our wisdom and who would lead us into a wisdom worthy of our highest love and most noble aspirations—indeed the very mind of Christ, the living way of the holy Cross.
This walk is by grace through faith. It doesn’t begin with our activity, but our receptivity.
We must be generous in our posture toward others and yet we must also be discriminating about what we accept and embrace as orthodox teaching.
For the gospel to be the gospel it requires a community of people—and even two or three will do.
LISTEN NOW! Colossians 1:25–27 I have become its servant by the commission God gave me to present to you the word of God in its fullness—the mystery that has been kept hidden for ages and
