What If Jesus Was Serious?: A Visual Guide to the Teachings of Jesus We Love to Ignore

Psalms includes many songs of celebration, but there are even more prayers of lament, complaint, and even cries for justice. “How long, O LORD?” is a frequent prayer in the psalms,

It is by trusting the Lord and the meekness of His ways, not through the sword of politics, that the land is won.

Dallas Willard defined the kingdom of heaven this way: “Where what God wants done is done.”1 In other words, it is the realm where God rules and evil is powerless. Jesus announced that this kingdom was now “at hand,” meaning it is within our reach. The kingdom of the heavens has broken into our world, and a new way of life is now possible. In the S

If we want the culture to take Jesus more seriously, maybe we should try it first.

Jesus is not prescribing how to be blessed, but rather describing who is blessed. While the world says the strong, powerful, and happy are “well off,” Jesus turns our expectations upside down by saying it’s the weak, sad, and overlooked who are well off in God’s kingdom.