Made for spirituality, we wallow in introspection. Made for joy, we settle for pleasure. Made for justice, we clamor for vengeance. Made for relationship, we insist on our own way. Made for beauty, we are satisfied with sentiment. But new creation has already begun. The sun has begun to rise. Christians are called to leave behind, in the tomb of Jesus Christ, all that belongs to the brokenness and incompleteness of the present world ... That, quite simply, is what it means to be Christian: to follow Jesus Christ into the new world, God's new world, which he has thrown open before us.

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If you have never felt or known the sheer power and strength of God's love, take another look at Jesus dying on the cross.

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You become like what you worship

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Our culture is so fixated on dying and going to heaven when the whole Scripture is about heaven coming to earth.

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The whole point of the kingdom of God is Jesus has come to bear witness to the true truth, which is nonviolent. When God wants to take charge of the world, he doesn't send in the tanks. He sends in the poor and the meek.

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People often get upset when you teach them what is in the Bible rather than what they presume is in the Bible.

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The message of Easter is that God's new world has been unveiled in Jesus Christ and that you're now invited to belong to it.

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Wherever St. Paul went, there was a riot. Wherever I go, they serve tea.

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You become like what you worship. When you gaze in awe, admiration, and wonder at something or someone, you begin to take on something of the character of the object of your worship.

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The closer you get to the truth, the clearer becomes the beauty, and the more you will find worship welling up within you. That's why theology and worship belong together.

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