“What is truth?”, asked Pontius Pilate the fifth governor of the Roman province of Judaea, as he presided over the trial and ultimately the crucifixion of Jesus. It’s a question worth asking in a world where truth is not absolute; truth is no longer black and white nor is it the same in everyone’s eyes. We live in a world where truth is subject to change. But radical love rejoices in the truth; it refuses to rejoice with evil, injustice or iniquity. Radical love is committed to truth and truth i...
Apr 28, 2024•47 min
To know Jesus is to be in an on-going, life-transforming, life-transferring relationship with radical love. Radical Love keeps no record of our wrongs and then empowers us to keep no record of wrongs. Radical Love is not simply something to be experienced, it’s something to be accessed daily. If we don’t access radical love daily, we will be redeemed from sin and death and still be dysfunctional in our everyday lives. Radical love teaches us to keep no record of wrongs.
Apr 21, 2024•42 min
Sometimes we can more clearly explain what something is by explaining what it’s not. Radical love ain’t rude. Rude is ill-mannered and disagreeable towards others. But rude is more than that, it’s also ill-mannered and disagreeable towards God. Rude wants what it wants, when it wants from God and everybody else. But those who walk in radical love are yielding their rights, seeing past themselves and learning to rest knowing God is fighting for them.
Apr 14, 2024•39 min
God-Yahweh Elohim the covenant making promise keeping God, made a promise to mankind in the garden of Eden over 2,000 years ago. He promised He would crush the head of the serpent by the seed of a woman. Jesus was that seed and He has indeed crushed the government of satan in the earth and given us life and life more abundantly in Him and the government of His Kingdom. This morning we celebrate…He is Risen and we are restored.
Mar 31, 2024•39 min
As Jesus descends from the Mount of Olives into Jerusalem, He knows it will be the last week of His life. On Palm Sunday He faces the painful reality that His greatest impact will be through His most difficult and lonely moments in this world. The mindset of radical love is more interested in God’s plans and purposes than our own promotion and preservation. Palm Sunday teaches us that obedient faithfulness to radical Love is what takes us to places we never imagined.
Mar 24, 2024•50 min
Pride is a root which the enemy sows in our hearts to choke the fruitfulness of love in our lives. In our pride-filled American culture, we are called not to conform to this world, but to be hypervigilant to recognize and eliminate the weeds of pride from our hearts so we can bring forth fruit for the glory of the Kingdom of God.
Mar 17, 2024•40 min
The radically patient and kind love of God frees us from the disfiguring grip of jealousy and envy. Jealousy and envy are everywhere — the constant comparison, excessive competitiveness, passive-aggressive pettiness and celebrating the failures of the popular are the flavor of our day. And jealousy and envy make us all caricatures of ourselves, trapped in a race no one wins. Radical love is the thing that makes us free. It is not jealous. It is not envious.
Mar 10, 2024•44 min
He who is holy is also long suffering. The God who’s love is patient is also the God who’s love is kind. His kindness is close to the top of the list when it comes to how God expresses His love to us. God’s kindness goes beyond the general, generic run of the mill acts of kindness. His kindness is unique, specific to our need and specific to His ability. Radical love is kind.
Mar 03, 2024•51 min
Before the love of God is anything; the love of God love is patient. We’ve all received radical patience from the God who is love. When we experience and acknowledge God’s loving patience with us and extend it to others we are changed and we become change agents. But when we receive God’s loving patience and refuse to extend it to others, we become hardened, isolated and imprisoned by our judgements.
Feb 25, 2024•47 min
Jesus never intended for His radical act of love on the cross and His bodily resurrection three days later to end simply with us being born again. That was a part of His divine assignment but not the entire plan. It has always been God’s intent that His people would live drawing daily and continually from His radical love. So many receive eternal life but never learn to live life daily drawing from His radical love. We can not live like or love like God intended until we learn to live lives root...
Feb 18, 2024•50 min
Because life is not about what happens to us but about what and how we re-member, stories matter and this life is a battle for control of the narrative. The stories we tell set the course for our personal destiny and the legacy we leave. As we transition from the place of altars and memorials, may our hearts settle the question of who authors our story so that we may enter into the radical Love of God.
Feb 11, 2024•38 min
Now that we've learned what altars and memorials are, it's time to have an honest conversation about what it looks like to live it. We need to move beyond simply hearing and knowing, to living and applying the truth of what it is to remember and rehearse the way God intended.
Feb 04, 2024•59 min
The Passover and the last supper are undisputedly the greatest altars and memorials in all of creation. It’s with these altars and memorials, Yahweh Elohim, the covenant making God of creation, changes the identity and the destiny of a people. No altar and no memorial gives identity and destiny like the cross and communion that the Passover and its lambs foreshadow. When we receive, remember and rehearse Jesus’ cross and communion we are changed for eternity and changed moment by moment. In Reme...
Jan 28, 2024•37 min
God understands the importance and the power of our memories. Some things He does in our lives with the intent that we will not only know Him but that we never forget Him. He has literally made mankind and the unfolding of our lives in such a way that we not only know Him — but so that we Don’t Forget Him.
Jan 21, 2024•45 min
Altars are places in our hearts before they’re places in this world. Some of those altars — places of honor and worship — are erected to the Living God anchoring us in His love, peace and power. But there are also altars erected to lil gods, giving reverence and worship to people, places and practices that aren’t God at all. When we give lil gods the adoration and esteem that belongs to the living God, we invite chaos, disorder and destruction into our lives and this world. There are times when ...
Jan 14, 2024•47 min
Altars are places where we offer up to God the things that consume us, control us and compete with His place in our lives. We also build altars as an act of worship because we realize God has kept us. Jacob is 97 years old before he builds an altar to God. In Jacob, we see the radical love of a God who presses us until we realize what He’s always known — we’ll never be home in ourselves or in Him until we build Him an altar.
Jan 07, 2024•43 min
“Often in life we forget the things we should remember and remember the things we should forget.” — Unknown It’s the stories we repeatedly tell ourselves and the experiences we continually rehearse that shape our way of seeing and being. As we step out of 2023 and over the threshold of 2024 we need to build some altars and establish some memorials to anchor us in the love of God. How we remember a thing has so much to do with how we enter a thing.
Dec 31, 2023•40 min
The birth of Christ is the most radical act of Love the world has ever known. In an age of excess, empire and power — Yahweh Elohim, the covenant making God, carried out His plan of incarnation. By the womb of a virgin, He made a body for Himself, that He might offer Himself, to restore mankind to Himself.
Dec 24, 2023•36 min
Joy is rooted in who God is. It is not a fleeting feeling based on external circumstances. Possessions, accomplishments, even the people in our lives, may bring us intermittent feelings of joy. However, the source of all perpetual joy is Jesus.
Dec 17, 2023•34 min
Peace is God’s gift to the believer, birthing His shalom in this fractured world. As we celebrate this Advent season, may we embrace the fullness of this Divine essential and our role as sharers of Peace in every space we are dispensed.
Dec 10, 2023•29 min
God has hopes for us collectively and individually. However, His hopes don’t always align with our dreams or plans. Submitting to His will even when it may cause us personal harm or difficulty is critical to the ultimate fulfillment of the Kingdom of God.
Dec 03, 2023•55 min
Jesus preached and taught about the Kingdom of God as a central part of His ministry. He has given His life; that we might be restored to the Kingdom and find life as He intended it.
Nov 26, 2023•53 min
There is no greater evidence that we are children of God than our living together as family. We can not say that we have received and experienced the love of the Father until we’ve given ourselves to love one another. If we’ve been adopted by the Father, we’ve been called to adopt one another as family — The Family of God. Scripture(s):
Nov 19, 2023•49 min
If we are born-again, we’re joint-heirs with Christ — we’ve been made one with Him. We now live, move and we have our being in Him. No longer do we look to the fallen world as our source of love, peace, fulfillment and joy. We have found that in Christ — although we are in the world it is no longer our source. This life of “in but not of” brings with it suffering. But the suffering it brings isn’t worthy to be compared to the glory that is and shall be revealed.
Nov 12, 2023•44 min
There is no greater distinction or identity that a human being can have than to be a child of God. We can make no greater contribution to humanity, to this world or to our families than to live as a child of God. But we can not make ourselves His, only Christ can do that — we’ve been given the work of agreeing with, what He says about us.
Nov 05, 2023•47 min
We all have practices and values which come from our family of origin. But now that we are resurrected to life in the family of Jesus Christ, it is essential that we discover and practice these seven values of our heavenly family. Without them, we will be ineffective and unproductive in our earthly assignments.
Oct 29, 2023•1 hr
When the Father restored us to Himself through the work of Christ — we were resurrected into new life. We now live from an entirely different operating system. Our new operating system is continually resurrecting us into new lives through the love of the Father. As we let go of and are delivered from our earthly horizontal past we find our true identity as the ones being resurrected by His love.
Oct 22, 2023•41 min
Adam and Eve rejected the Fatherhood of God. They decided dependence on themselves was more desirable than dependence on God the Father. This legacy of broken relationship was inherited by us all. In Christ, we are adopted and restored to relationship with the covenant making, promise keeping Father. Our adoption and restoration is more than a future in the new heaven and earth. We’ve been resurrected into new life that we might usher in and experience and heaven on earth in the here and now....
Oct 15, 2023•47 min
When we respond to the love of the Father with rebellion or religion, there’s a word for that — individualism. Individualism (rebellion/religion) is a result of the fall; it says we don’t need you Lord God we can do it on our own. We can do life on our own terms fulfilling our own desires. But resurrection life/to be born again through faith in Christ says the opposite. Resurrection life says, we need you Lord God and we have found there’s truly no life outside of the feast and celebration of yo...
Oct 08, 2023•38 min
This passage is titled the prodigal son. Prodigal is defined as having or giving something on a lavish scale or a person who spends in an extravagant way. Author and theologian Tim Keller wrote a book renaming this parable The Prodigal God because there’s no one more extravagant and lavish in this parable than God the Father. This parable is ultimately about Him, His extravagant love and the ways His children respond. Never having encountered a love like God’s, we all respond one of three ways —...
Sep 24, 2023•40 min
