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I'm reaching out with something a bit special — an invitation to join me on a reflective journey called Deep Calls to Deep.
The last couple of weeks have been a huge reminder to me that there is still more goodness in this world than bad.
One of the most contentious topics within American Christianity is the role followers of Jesus should or should not play within politics and government.
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. 
The cold, hard fact is that there are prayers that God does not answer.
Who can stand before this cosmically-sized love without being completely transformed?
Either way, you will ultimately face then refiner’s fire.
The problem is that Hell is never once mentioned in the Bible.
When you are confronted with the reality of an undeserved kindness, it can be transformative.
The word wrath isn’t an unloading of God’s fury and rage on the unrepentant.
Should we pray for the president?
The judgment of God is simply giving a person what they have freely chosen.
We have only ever been alienated from God in our minds.
I was told that I needed to be saved from my sins so that I wouldn’t go to Hell when I die.
The most misunderstood word in all of Christianity.
God has unconditionally and preemptively forgiven all people, all people, all people, for all time.
There are many people who struggle to understand a God who unconditionally and preemptively forgives everyone.
The forgiveness of God is unconditional and preemptive.
Where O Light are you in this darkness?
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.
God, I am done with you.
"Thoughts and prayers" are devoid of meaning, of value, of consequence, of participation, of action, of change.
Maybe my struggle has been with the way in which our culture has always portrayed prayer.
We live in an age in which stimulation and consumption are all too normal in our lives.
We have not been given the task of shutting the door or preventing "sinners" from entering into the Kingdom of God.
All you have to do is walk outside and take a deep breath and accept the invitation.
Words and experience can only take us so far and that destination is painfully and woefully short of God's love-essence.
Throughout the Ages, God has absorbed the insults of his accusers and endured the mischaracterizations of his followers.
Religious expectation has never been the point of this life. And when you finally realize that, you will be free.
For if the Resurrection was God’s final and decisive victory over sin and death, then the Advent of Christ was the day the war began.
How ought Christians view politics and the government in light of the Old Testament?
There is a kingdom movement outside of the church walls being embodied and coming to life in a hungry people.
Right now our conversations are not conversations.
Is this the way life will always be? Will things ever be set right? Will there ever be peace? Will there ever be justice? Will the aching ever go away?
There is no question that we live in an incredibly unique time in history in which there is a strange mass collision of shallowness, superficiality, competing narratives that try to explain our existence, and depersonalization wrought by technology, all accompanied by a growing disdain for spirituality, in general, and religion, in specific, from a hyper-rationalistic culture.
Will we ever find joy? Will love ever prevail instead of hate and violence? Will the longings of hope ever be realized into something?
There is a beautiful word, an elegant descriptor, that has been maligned, tarnished, lampooned, distorted, and completely misunderstood.