All tagged God is Jesus

Comforters, Please don't say, "God is in control."

While those words may bring comfort to some, it has always brought a heavy onto my heart. I used to not be able to articulate why that “security blanket” felt so heavy, so stifling…so suffocating, until after many years of walking with Jesus gave me the courage to call it what it is: a load of religious shit.

If you aren’t aware of how shitty it is, I’ll try and help spell it out for you.

Did Jesus leave his weapons behind Hacksaw-Ridge-style?

We have this beautiful poem in the New Testament—the Kenosis Hymn—to invite us into the same “Aha moment” that the early church celebrated and commemorated. This “Aha” will change the way you see everything. It will redefine strength and godlikeness. It will become a flaming example of humility that burns away all pride and fear of smallness…