We live in a world that rewards performance. It’s ingrained in us from an early age. Tests, sports, education, manners; almost everything. And this performance-based mindset affects our view of and relationship to God. We can believe we must perform to certain standards to be in right relationship with God. We feel that when we do the right thing, God turns his chair toward us. We feel that when we do the wrong thing, He turns His is back on us. As such, we begin creating religious performance-based rules for ourselves and then live by them, in bondage. But Jesus didn’t come to start a religion. He came to restore a relationship.
We can, through a “salt and light” calling, preserve, flavor, brighten, and warm both society as a whole and the lives around us. (1)...
We all wonder, question, and doubt and do so through a specific frame of reference. When our reasoning doesn’t provide all answers, we wonder...
We are not self-defined, but God defined. One of the ways that God defines us is as adopted as a child of God. As...
