The God of Jesus doesn’t approve of cruel American political policies. The God of Jesus doesn’t approve of ICE separating children from their parents. Because the God of Jesus is serving up a party and everyone is invited. It is God’s good pleasure to generously serve everyone, including undocumented immigrants and brown people and black…
Jesus said “Those who live by the sword die by the sword.” I began to wonder, Christians claim to follow Jesus, who warned that anyone who lives by the sword will die by the sword. So how could Christians live by the sword? We can’t. The time has come when we have to put our…
Jesus prays that the Father’s Kingdom would come to earth. Do you see how politically subversive this prayer is? The King at the time was a man named Herod. It was Herod’s kingdom. The Kingdom of God is radically different from the Kingdom of Herod. It’s a place where despite economic status, everyone has their…
I tell you this because sometimes we can feel alone in this work. But I want you to know that there are churches throughout the world delivering the same Gospel message that we proclaim – God is love. God loves us unconditionally because God loves all people unconditionally. Our job is to simply receive God’s…
In the story, God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah not because of homosexuality, but because of the way those towns treated people migrating from one place to another. The story says God destroyed the cities because they refused to show hospitality to vulnerable strangers who were staying in their town. Can you see any relevance in…
Jesus is the Son of God. This is not merely a pious religious statement. This is about a theological and political worldview. In the ancient Roman world, the Son of God was the emperor who ruled the world through violence, coercion, and death. But according to the Gospels, Jesus is the true Son of God…
How would the world be different if Christians went around saying, “God doesn’t judge you or condemn you for being transgender. God delights in you.”? What if we proclaimed that God doesn’t condemn anyone for being LGBTQ or heterosexual or poor or rich or black or brown or white or cisgender or transgender or from…
Jesus’ prayer is intentionally circular because he wants to make sure that we understand it. God is not out to get us by punishing us or condemning us. God is out to love us. All of us. The unity that Jesus prays for is a unity that’s based on sharing God’s glory with one another…