Our personal freedoms quickly turn into a justification for trampling on the personal freedoms of others when we define freedom in terms of uncompromising autonomy rather than in terms of loving our neighbors as ourselves.

This is a brilliant example of how to be a Christian in the public square. Notice the witness, but in a form the culture can handle. We should desire to have more Christians in these spaces and give them grace as they operate.

America’s best evangelist.

Yo. That’s actually insane

If I had to guess, the #1 reason why conspiracy theories are so popular is that actually figuring stuff out is hard.

KB Sam Hoadley-Brill Yep. It’s easier to just believe conspiracy rather than doing the work of excavating truth. Also, the truth is usually much more boring than we like and conspiracy gives folks a semblance of entertainment replete with secret intentions and cover-up’s.

The first 3 questions God asked Adam & Eve after they sin are: 1. Where are you? 2. Who told you? 3. What have you done? A good list for preachers. Good preaching helps people locate themselves in their estrangement & identify the voices we often listen to instead of God.

Integrity matters. Integrity matters. Integrity matters. Integrity matters. Integrity matters. Integrity matters. Integrity matters. Integrity matters.

I am so sick of Christians telling me that pursing justice is “unbiblical” and we should just stick to “preaching the Gospel.” Calling justice “unbiblical” is, quite literally, one of the most unbiblical statements you can make...

We’ve traded the power of the Holy Spirit for the power of anger and the pitiful tragedy is that we can’t tell the difference.

Heyo Christians, HOW you hold your position may be just as important as WHAT position you hold. Speaking for my friends who are pushed away by your belittling of them more than your opinion. Titus 3:1-2 Proverbs 15:1-2 Micah 6:8

Freedom is not doing what you want to do. 5 year-old undisciplined children do that. True freedom is a life of sacrifical love that moves you to do what's best others.

If you’re a Christian and support and love things like CPAC, you need to ask yourself how you square this type of disgusting childish harassment with your faith and how is this in line with Jesus’ ethics and teachings?

Culture war tribalism is mostly about winning at all costs and offending political opponents rather than finding constructive solutions. Rightness is assumed instead of proven. Part of the cure for this is focusing on taking the right position rather than simply choosing a side.

While there's some truth to this (God does care for us individually), it can lead people to falsely believe that God makes individual covenant's with each of us. No, God saves *a people.* God rescues a collective to which you belong. Not a bunch of individuals slapped together.

Watch out for the new Christian agnostics who tell us not to be certain about anything the Bible says then turn around and speak with certainty about ideological conclusions. We should be honest and humble about what we don’t know without being blind to what God’s made clear.

“Jesus’ kingdom politics are not the politics of a sword but instead the politics of a cross, where it was self-sacrificial love and death that would lead to resurrection and victory” - Scot McKnight

In my role as a pastor, I’m not trying to get everyone to agree on everything so much as I’m attempting to create environments where our disagreements don’t automatically become cause for disunity.

I've argued that Gen Z is primed for spiritual renewal, which is why we're seeing small scale revivals popping off across the country. We've even seen it here. Of course, that begs the question: practically, how do we feed their hunger? Three practices:

When access to guns becomes more important to us Christians than access to insulin, access to healthcare, or access to lunches at school, that is a sign of a broken Christianity.