Hell on Earth and the Kingdom of God
In 2008 I had the opportunity to serve the poorest of poor. There is a people group in Honduras known as, "the people of the dump" who literally live, eat, work, and sleep in the city trash dump. Inside t...
Jesus the Breadmaker
“Look daddy, ” my two-year-old daughter said on Sunday, pointing to the communion table, “Jesus gave us more food again.”
I don’t write nearly as much about little Zoe as I do about my boy, Mattias. First o...
Jesus, Bombs, and Ice Cream
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I was in Baghdad in March 2003, where I lived as a Christian and as a peacemaker during the “shock-and-awe”...
What if Jesus Meant All That Stuff?
To all my nonbelieving, sort-of-believing, and used-to-be-believing friends: I feel like I should begin with a confession. I am sorry that so often the biggest obstacle to God has been Christians. Christian...
An Understanding of Radical Love
I am a Christian, so I know love. I know love because I am loved.
Unconditionally.
I know what love is supposed to look like and feel like. I know how I am suppose to love because Jesus invented the come-as-...
Mona Lisa and Jesus
Fecialis online without prescriptionw paintings throughout the world are as well known as Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa (or La Gioconda, as the Italians refer to her). The image is also one of the most reproduced...
Why Christians Don't Like Jesus
As the Red Letter Christian movement came to be known, I realized it would never be accepted. This is because many Christians don’t really like the God that is revealed in Jesus Christ. They want the God tha...
Meeting Jesus in the Poor
In Luke 16:19-31, we read the story that Jesus told about a certain rich man and a poor man named Lazarus who had lain suffering with hunger and a diseased body just outside of the rich man’s house. Jesus tel...