Either Jesus will deconstruct us or we will deconstruct Jesus.  We must seek the former and flee the latter.  We must flee the possibility of deconstructing Jesus like the plague and long for Jesus to deconstruct us like the only vaccine for a plague that will otherwise wipe us out. For some who may not [...]

Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life … “ (John 14:6).  Christ followers claim to believe it, or him.  In the current climate of tolerance and political correctness followers of Jesus will respectfully but firmly insist that Jesus’ way is the way like no other, that doing it Jesus’ way gets [...]

Friends, here is what we are about.  We are earnest followers of Jesus.  We start, continue, and finish with Jesus.  We do not so much have Jesus in our hearts as Jesus has us in his heart.  We delight not so much that Jesus is part of our lives as that we are part of Jesus’ life.  [...]

God has cheated you out of what is rightfully yours!  And, God’s way is unnecessarily hard!  These are the primal temptations that targeted the first humans and the FINAL HUMAN.  They continue to target us, and often undo us. God has cheated you or God denies you what is really best for you.  God doesn’t [...]

On Saturday, May 21, Harold Camping and followers were wrong.  They predicted that Jesus would “rapture” his people out of this world by day’s end.  It was at least the second time they were wrong in this way.  The story of their anticipation moved from front page in the morning to page 43 by nightfall.  [...]