Jesus’ teachings strike us as bewilderingly counter intuitive at times precisely because he is instructing us to live in the present evil age as though the future age of the Kingdom of God were already here.
We don’t have a God who is looking for servants. We have a Father who is in search of sons and daughters.
Jesus calls for a decisive choice to be “all-in” with him. The power of the “or” is the way it leads to the real abundance.
We tend to live by the old adage, often attributed to the Bible, “The Lord helps those who help themselves.” According to Jesus, this could not be further from the truth.
To the extent we don’t see and love the broken and hurting and lost among us, we don’t see and love God.
There is a difference between a spirit of resignation to the situation and an intentional act of surrender to God.
The gospel of the Kingdom is extraordinary, extravagant, and it excels beyond our wildest imagination.
People may not remember what you said, but they will never forget what you did. Your life is the lesson.
The Kingdom of God is the world made right again. To repent is to join that movement.
Jesus has not come to do a few mission projects on earth; to show us a “better way.” He has come to inaugurate the Kingdom of Heaven.
Jesus has inaugurated the era of the mercy of God, the time in which repentance and reorientation of one’s life are not only possible but empowered.
The fundamental brokenness of the human race, the essence of the brokenness that we call sin, is the inability to freely receive.
