Category: Jesus
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The Kingdom Series: Jesus Ascending
Jesus wasn’t hitching a ride back to his home in the sky, or taking the escalator to the ‘upper floor’ – This was about ascending a throne.
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The Kingdom Series: Proof of Life
Jesus’ Facebook page is out of date – otherwise we might be able to prove he was alive. The first witnesses, though, saw his new life as proof of something more.
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The Kingdom Series: Non-Violence and the Cross
When you try to separate Jesus’ crucifixion from his teachings on non-violence, you overlook a critical aspect of his death.
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The Kingdom Series: Not for Everyone
Jesus’ good news has always made the powers-that-be uneasy…and so it should!
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The Kingdom Series: Good News!
Maybe we ought to rethink the ‘gospel’ we’re spreading – if for no other reason, because it doesn’t resemble the real good news that Jesus announced.
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The Kingdom Series: …Or Not Going to Hell
We shouldn’t reduce the Kingdom of God to a safe haven from the fires of hell. It’s so much bigger.
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The Kingdom Series: A Cosmic Joke
When they crucified Jesus, the powers-that-be thought they’d seen off one more would-be Messiah. Instead they got punked by God’s unconventional game plan.
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Floods of Judgement?
Some see natural disasters as signs of God’s judgement. But that’s misunderstanding the God revealed in Jesus.
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Leading the Blind?
Believing that President Trump is ‘God’s anointed’ makes us blind. And the worst part is, we’re unaware that we can’t see.
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What’s Your Identity?
If Paul wrote us a letter, he might remind us that, in Jesus, there are no more Americans and Mexicans, Westerners and Middle Easterners, Republican and Democrat, citizen and immigrant…but would we listen?