Jesus went around doing good. Wherever he showed up, he made that event better, he made those people better, he made that neighborhood better.

I believe God can be found in the most ordinary of things, even a board game about making Mars habitable.

Jesus says there’s a blessing when we get our international and external worlds aligned. The blessing is that we get to see God at work.

We are not called to solve every conflict or heal every wound overnight. Instead, we are invited to take the next faithful step toward reconciliation, trusting that God meets us there.

These words kick off Jesus’s most famous sermon—the most famous sermon in the world

Do I have to Tithe? Those of use raised in the Evangelical environment know all too well the concept of tithing. For many, it started as we were kids, having to set aside a portion of our allowance to tithe to our church, at the urging or requirement, of our parents.

Thinking about “For I know the plans I have for you”

Keep me from the arrogance
of believing I have arrived. Keep me curious enough

to gather gold from unlikely places. By iyree jarrett

Paul makes the bold claim that God’s purpose in Christ is to reconcile together all things.

Don’t try to tell them it will get better, to offer words of hope from a place that you might feel, but is beyond reach for them in that moment. Don’t act as if the grenade in their lives didn’t just go off.

Simple, heartfelt reflections on loss and suffering.

I finally free to question the tension between the idea of eternal conscious torment and my belief that God is loving and good. By iyree Jarrett

Maybe the destruction Jesus talks about is in this life and not the next

So we march. We stand up. We speak out. Because we love and serve a radical God who lead by example in caring for the weak against the strong by Kelley Barton

Statistically the Bible doesn’t represent people equally.

What I learned at a conference with post evangelicals about deconstructing systems along with theology and that the Bible was written to be read in community and not isolation by Kelley Barton

Jesus sets a clear mandate to love difficult people. But how do you do that

Jesus challenged how the religious folks looked at the Bible. They went to it looking for answers. They wanted to know what was right and wrong.