Prayer is a response to the God who has spoken first.

A Study and Discussion Guide for the Kingdom of Heaven Passport

"It's not about religion, it's about relationship." Really? But how do we have a relationship with an invisible silent friend?

Jesus leads us from mere religious holiness to relational wholeness. He is teaching us how to be "perfect" in mercy, not just morality.

God-like love will change our hearts, and God-like love will save the world. Freely we have received, and freely we give.

God has surprised us with undeserved, unexpected, unconditional love, and we ought to pay it forward.

Love, not law, is the way to maximum human flourishing.

Using others as kindling to stoke our inner fires of desire is one of the ways we devalue and dehumanize God's image on earth.

According to Jesus, whatever it is we think anger and outrage are helping us accomplish, love will do a better job.

The "A.B.C.s" of following Jesus: Ask, Believe, and Commit to Community.

The crucifixion of Christ was history's most murderous injustice. But Jesus claimed it was his plan all along. What was he up to?

If Jesus had a catchy slogan for his Good News message, it might be: MORE LOVE, LESS RELIGION.

By his name, billions of people curse; and in his name, billions of people pray. There is no one and nothing quite like Jesus.

Jesus teaches his disciples how to internalize and metabolize the teaching of the Bible to energize our spiritual lives.

Jesus leads us into a righteousness that goes above the law to find the love, and goes beyond justice to mercy.

Life is love, period. Everything else is commentary.

The cataclysmic shift from Old to New Covenant changes everything about how we relate to God and one another and even our own Bibles.

Jesus pictures the Bible as a vessel, like a clay pot, that he has come, not to smash on the ground, but to fill up with its true meaning.

Disciples of Jesus are meant to live together in ways that spread the light of God’s love.

Disciples of Jesus are meant to get out of the saltshaker and into the world.