Family & Summer Chaos Just wrapped up the most glorious family trip to California — floated around Pete and June's pool in Alamo with a book like I was twelve years old again at Stone Lake. The kids treated that pool like their personal kingdom. My cousin Jessica was
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Picture this: you're 21, idealistic, and convinced that putting a Bible on the communion table is a stroke of liturgical genius. What could possibly go wrong? Everything, as it turns out. I was an intern at a small church where the communion table received the full Martha Stewart
Every time Jesus says "you will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds," Christians tend to immediately think "Second Coming" - but we've got the direction completely backwards. In a previous post, I talked about how Jesus barely mentions his second coming.
Peter literally denied knowing Jesus three times in front of a crowd, but Jesus still made him the leader of the early church. That should inform our understanding of what forgiveness and grace really mean. But let's back up and talk about what faith used to cost people.
The establishment of monarchy in ancient Israel was a theological disaster that God explicitly opposed—which should fundamentally challenge how we conceptualize divine authority today.
The moment we think we're too important to serve, we've missed the entire point of following the Guy who said "the last shall be first."
Conservative Christians have quite the relationship with Romans 13. When Republicans are in power, they'll quote "be subject to governing authorities" with three flag emojis and a sense of divine vindication. But the moment Democrats win an election? Suddenly that Bible verse gets real quiet, replaced
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