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It is always the transformation of the smallest part that leads to the transformation of the whole. 
We groan and cry out in this painful life experience together. 
There are many people who struggle to understand a God who unconditionally and preemptively forgives everyone.
The forgiveness of God is unconditional and preemptive.
You may not trust these words now, but there is hope in your pain and suffering.
Joy is an ever-present reality to which we open wide our souls to receive, but it is also a remembering and a longing.
We live in an age in which stimulation and consumption are all too normal in our lives.
The church of the future is around a table- breaking bread and taking the cup together. It is where we move from a personal, individualized faith to a place of shared, relational, and communal faith as a family.
When a person is continually told how bad and wrong they are, they grow angry and resentful toward those they view as self-righteous and holier-than-thou.
We must become people of the bottom; people who are below; people who are last; people who are in the back; people who are the least.
The central purpose, the grand narrative, the over-arching achievement of God is to bring heaven and earth back together as one.
Our future hope does not involve us as disembodied spirits floating around in the sky.
We have erroneously viewed the Kingdom of Heaven as a disembodied future existence and destination for Christians.
What if the Biblical narrative paints a very different picture of our future hope than the one many Christians have come to believe?
When a loved-one in your life passes unexpectedly, everything else in the world seems to completely stop and to have very little significance.
There has to be more to our faith in Jesus Christ than just “becoming a Christian in order to get to heaven” in the future. There must be a purpose for which we are called presently…that shapes who we are and what we are to do. Simple answers will not work.