SM #25: How to be Perfec t
Jesus leads us from mere religious holiness to relational wholeness. He is teaching us how to be "perfect" in mercy, not just morality.
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SM #24: Loving Like God
God-like love will change our hearts, and God-like love will save the world. Freely we have received, and freely we give.
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SM #23: Becoming Surprising
God has surprised us with undeserved, unexpected, unconditional love, and we ought to pay it forward.
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SM #21: Love > Law
Love, not law, is the way to maximum human flourishing.
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Dec 9, 202321 min read
SM #20: The Look of Lust
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.
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Nov 4, 202337 min read
SM #19: Murder in the Mind & Mouth
According to Jesus, whatever it is we think anger and outrage are helping us accomplish, love will do a better job.
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Sep 8, 202325 min read
Intro to Jesus #4: HOW CAN WE FOLLOW JESUS?
The "A.B.C.s" of following Jesus: Ask, Believe, and Commit to Community.
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Aug 31, 202328 min read
Intro to Jesus #3: WHY DID JESUS DIE?
The crucifixion of Christ was history's most murderous injustice. But Jesus claimed it was his plan all along. What was he up to?
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Aug 24, 202335 min read
Intro to Jesus #2: WHAT DID JESUS TEACH?
If Jesus had a catchy slogan for his Good News message, it might be: MORE LOVE, LESS RELIGION.
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Aug 17, 202316 min read
Intro to Jesus #1: WHO IS JESUS?
By his name, billions of people curse; and in his name, billions of people pray. There is no one and nothing quite like Jesus.
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Jul 29, 202314 min read
SM #18: HOW TO EAT THE BIBLE (An Introduction to the Six Antitheses)
Jesus teaches his disciples how to internalize and metabolize the teaching of the Bible to energize our spiritual lives.
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Jul 9, 202319 min read
SM #17: Above & Beyond (Real Righteousness, Part 4)
Jesus leads us into a righteousness that goes above the law to find the love, and goes beyond justice to mercy.
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Jul 5, 202315 min read
SM #16: The Law of Love (Real Righteousness, Part 3)
Life is love, period. Everything else is commentary.
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Jun 24, 202320 min read
SM #15: The End of the World as We Know It (Real Righteousness, part 2)
The cataclysmic shift from Old to New Covenant changes everything about how we relate to God and one another and even our own Bibles.
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Jun 10, 202328 min read
SM #14: FILL 'ER UP! (Real Righteousness, Part 1)
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.
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May 8, 202315 min read
SM #13: This Little Light of Ours
Disciples of Jesus are meant to live together in ways that spread the light of God’s love.
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May 1, 202324 min read
SM #12: Out of the Saltshaker
Disciples of Jesus are meant to get out of the saltshaker and into the world.
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Apr 16, 202318 min read
SM #10: In Good Company
Jesus-people have the privilege of forming an alter-culture of good company where we celebrate grace with joy, despite persecution.
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Apr 6, 202317 min read
SM #9: Peacemaking & the Ministry of Mending (Part 2)
Peacemaking is inherently evangelistic. The Gospel is the message that Jesus brings us peace with God and with one another.
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Mar 26, 202311 min read
SM #8: Peacemaking & the Ministry of Mending (Part 1)
Peacemaking goes beyond being nonviolent to actively engaging in the work of mediation and reconciliation.
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