Many in the modern world fell for the myth that we're living in a static, fixed, flat reality of just material things.

It is trusting that I am loved. That I always have been. That I always will be. I don't have to do anything. I don't have to prove anything, or achieve anything, or accomplish one more thing. That, exactly as I am, I am totally accepted, forgiven, and there is nothing I could ever do to lose this acceptance.

I would hope that wherever I go I bring good news - that's what that word means, right? It began with the first followers of Jesus taking a Roman military propaganda term and co-opting it for their own subversive purposes, insisting that the world isn't made better through coercive military violence but through sacrificial love. How great is that!? Unfortunately this word has been hijacked in several years for other purposes but no worries, we're taking it back.

The fact that we are loved and accepted and forgiven in spite of everything we have done is simply too good to be true.

The fundamental story arc of the Bible is God is passionate about rescuing this world, restoring it, renewing it.

Love demands freedom. It always has, and it always will. We are free to resist, reject, and rebel against God's ways for us. We can have all the hell we want.

Love frees us to embrace all of our history, the history in which all things are being made new.