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 hardness of the human heart makes no sense.

For a lot of people in our world today, God has become about believing the right stuff so you don't get in trouble.

The Christian faith is mysterious to the core. It is about things and beings that ultimately can't be put into words. Language fails. And if we do definitively put God into words, we have at that very moment made God something God is not.

Any time someone makes you feel guilty about how you are living, that is part of the old system (pre-Christ).

I have been told that I need to believe in Jesus. Which is a good thing. But what I am learning is that Jesus believes in me.

Whether we are reading the Bible for the first time or standing in a field in Israel next to a historian and an archaeologist and a scholar, the Bible meets us where we are. That is what truth does