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Jiu-Jitsu

Jiu-Jitsu

The point, process and net effect of the Gospel of Jesus Christ working in us and through us is freedom. Freedom! Freedom from self-centeredness. Freedom from avarice. Freedom from fear. Freedom from fear of death. Freedom from hate. Freedom from isolation. Freedom...
Harvest

Harvest

Harvest labor, Jesus says, is down into the fingernail-dirty corners of the world where the poor live who don’t often make it into our churches. It’s down into the muck of human relationships.

Defeating Giants

Defeating Giants

David and Goliath is one of the best stories in the Bible. Spoiler alert! Goliath loses big to the teenager!

Observing Juneteenth

Observing Juneteenth

“Today is Juneteenth! Today we celebrate the gift of freedom though delayed but not denied. Nearly two years after the Emancipation Proclamation the news of freedom came to 250,000 people in Galveston, Texas. The Absalom Jones Center for Racial Healing here in...
Grace-grit

Grace-grit

God intervenes through grace. Our response to grace is thanksgiving. It’s a call and response, a cause and effect.

Choose

Choose

For Jesus, relieving human suffering was worship! For Jesus, religious and political structures exist to affirm human dignity and deliver mercy.

Freedom-House

Freedom-House

The church ought to be a freedom-house. The best measure of that isn’t how high the steeple is or how deep the endowment runs, but how many people here are being made free.