We’ve Never Been Here Before
Maturity not only begins but continues with the confession that no matter how much we do grasp, there’s far more that we don’t.
Maturity not only begins but continues with the confession that no matter how much we do grasp, there’s far more that we don’t.
Discipleship is about feeling the weight of the cross a bit, counting the cost, weighing allegiances, and making hard yet life-giving choices.
When we finally learn to value the least among us in the same way we value ourselves, then we will have entered the Kingdom of God.
The will of God can only be known by listening to the Word of God. Until we do that, our prayers are at best, wishes.
Jesus’ teachings strike us as bewilderingly counter intuitive at times precisely because he is instructing us to live in the present evil age as though the future age of the Kingdom of God were already here.
We don’t have a God who is looking for servants. We have a Father who is in search of sons and daughters.
Jesus calls for a decisive choice to be “all-in” with him. The power of the “or” is the way it leads to the real abundance.
We tend to live by the old adage, often attributed to the Bible, “The Lord helps those who help themselves.” According to Jesus, this could not be further from the truth.
To the extent we don’t see and love the broken and hurting and lost among us, we don’t see and love God.