When people use the word “Jesus,” then, it’s important for us to ask who they’re talking about. Are they referring to a token of tribal membership, a tamed, domesticated Jesus who waves

So when people ask, “What will we do in heaven?” one possible answer is to simply ask: “What do you love to do now that will go on in the world to come?”

who grew up in a Christian church and then walked away when they got older? Often pastors and parents and brothers and sisters are concerned about them and their spirituality—and often they should be. But sometimes those individuals’ rejection of church and the Christian faith they were presented with as the only possible interpretation of what it

That’s why wealth is so dangerous: if you’re not careful you can easily end up with a garage full of nouns.

Heaven is both the peace, stillness, serenity, and calm that come from having everything in its right place—that state in which nothing is required, needed, or missing—and the endless joy that comes from participating in the ongoing creation of the world.

Or are they referring to the very life source of the universe

Do you know any individuals

the fate of billions of people, not totally great. Sort of great. A little great.

interpretations, and attitudes that should be rejected. Perhaps they simply came to a point where they refused to accept the very sorts of things that Jesus would refuse to accept.