Kidnapped, enslaved, and forgotten—until God spoke in a dream. The story of Patrick isn’t just history; it’s an invitation. What happens when we say yes to God, even when it leads us back to the places we’d rather avoid?
Few statements upset me more than the phrase, “Everything happens for a reason”—especially because I always hear people use this statement in reference to God after they were persecuted in some kind atrocious way by Satan. I always respond, “Yeah, it did happen for a reason—and that reason was not God!” God does not want…
The Biblical term election isn’t too hard to comprehend if you just look at it through the lens of the Old Testament; for Israel was God’s chosen community. He elected them to be His nation. In the same way that we are all imagers of God because we are born human, all Israelites were elect…
Jesus says, “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.” Join us in today’s episode as we talk more about that beatitude.
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In his usual evocative form, Pastor Rob Bell once raised a marker and told his audience to imagine what this 3D object would look like on a 2D plane. From a side perspective it would look like a line, but from another perspective it would look like a circle. And anyone who lived on that…
People turn to select passages in the Bible in order to say that everything is predestined by God. But I just open the Bible at random and point to 99.9% of the rest of it to show the opposite. The whole thing is full of human choice after human choice after human choice. In fact,…
We hunger and thirst for all kinds of things: money, stuff, love, family—and the list goes on. But in the beatitudes Jesus tells us that we’ll really find satisfaction if we pursue righteousness instead. We talk about that and more in today’s episode of JXN Cloud. Join our online church community by logging onto our…
Having grown up in the Wesleyan tradition, I’ve always believed that I have free will. I am a free agent, making free choices, even if there are factors at play pushing me in any particular direction. When you grow up with this understanding, you don’t run into the kind of dilemma that some sects of…
Jesus’ blessings in the beatitudes are often contrary to the way that we think of blessing. For example, we don’t know of many people that get land through “meekness,” but rather though force. So what does Jesus mean when he says, “Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth”? Let’s talk about that…
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