When Jesus Takes You Aside
The fullness of life offered by Jesus requires the emptying of the life I somehow think I can build without him—all of it.
The fullness of life offered by Jesus requires the emptying of the life I somehow think I can build without him—all of it.
Because God is about extravagant generosity, he is about so much more than fairness.
Jesus is the Gospel of the Kingdom of Heaven. To encounter Jesus is to encounter the Kingdom.
To be heavenly-minded means to live in the midst of this present evil age according to the values of the age to come.
Sometimes we must let the hard truth do its hard work in us. That’s the path to maturity.
Jesus challenges the value system of the world, with its decisive pecking order, status orientation, and power structures.
What if these present departures on marriage are actually a fruit of the former allowance for divorce made by Moses?
We are to be like Jesus, which means, when it comes to brothers and sisters sinning against us, we are to become people of unlimited mercy.
Open, persistent sin is a sure path to destruction for the sinner and damage to the entire community.
God care so deeply for us that he enters into our lostness and leaves the ninety-nine behind to find his one lost child.
Those who give themselves and their time and their resources to seeing after the welfare of children are doing some of the most important work in the Kingdom of God.
Jesus is the Gospel of the Kingdom of Heaven. To encounter Jesus is to encounter the Kingdom.