• 4 Minute Read You’ve been told that human life is rooted in the story of Genesis 3; God says that your true identity is found in Genesis 1. Understandably, we often relate more to the Genesis 3 (“the fall”) part of the story. Look at your newsfeed. Look at your hurts. Look at …
4 Clichés about Suffering Christians Need to Stop Saying
• 7 Minute Read I recently released a book where I look at the topic of pain, joy, and Jesus. Writing Echoing Hope: How the Humanity of Jesus Redeems our Pain pushed me to reflect on the nature of suffering and how our narratives about God can sometimes create more harm than good. I’m …
Brian Zahnd: “Divine Love has the Final Say”
• 3 Minute Read Hello friends! Today we get to hear from my friend Brian Zahnd. He’s been a huge influence over the years and I was honored to have him as the “Afterword” for Echoing Hope: How the Humanity of Jesus Redeems our Pain. “Does God hurt with us?” This is a deeply …
Scot McKnight: “I Grew Up Without Jesus the Person”
• 3 Minute Read Hello friends, Today I want to share Scot McKnight’s words from the forward of my book Echoing Hope: How the Humanity of Jesus Redeems our Pain. Not only was it an honor to have Scot write a foreword for me, but it reads like a good newsletter/blog post. So, here …
Let’s Stop Under-Humanizing Jesus
• 3 Minute Read Hi friends, Today I want to share something that is a major theme in Echoing Hope. In the church, although not in any “official sense,” we have an experiential tendency to minimize Jesus’ human nature. Let me explain…. Underhumanizing Jesus While overdeifying Jesus isn’t possible, since as a Christ follower …
Give Up Hopelessness for Lent
• 5 Minute Read Hello friends, It’s our first full season of Lent since the pandemic. Just think about it. Pandemic. That’s a term I used to categorize neatly for history books or “over there.” Never did I imagine that a full on pandemic would come upon us like this. I mean, aren’t we …
Your Humanity is not the Problem
• 3 Minute Read Hello friends, I wanted to riff on something I’ve been thinking about lately: Your humanity is not the problem. For a variety of reasons, many of us grew up with a narrative that said something like…. Your humanness is the sinful part of you Your humanness is something to overcome …
N.T. Wright & Sarah Bessey 🔥
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VeggieTales Creator Interview – Pain, Joy, and Vegetables [EP-73]
• < 1 Minute Read Subscribe via iTunes or Google Phil Vischer, creator of VeggieTales, talks with Kurt about his spiritual journey as it pertains to creating, bankrupting, and coming back to his beloved show. This conversation is full of wisdom and fun. Here’s a few resources from Phil to check out: THE LAUGH AND LEARN BIBLE FOR …
James: So Close to Jesus that his Language Changed (an insight from Scot Mcknight)
• 5 Minute Read One of the highlights of my past couple of months was heading out to my denomination’s (BIC) bi-annual General Assembly. There were several significant moments that stand out from that gathering. However, I want to share one of them with you. But before I do, I wanted to let you …
Remember. Remember. Remember. (How God’s Ongoing Story Roots Ministry & Life)
• 3 Minute Read I’ve lived most my life in the Silicon Valley, a place many consider the epicenter of innovation in the technology age. My uncle worked for IBM when I was a kid. I remember his dark blue coffee mug with that simple and emphatic logo. At the time, IBM was the …
Finding Our True Self
• 5 Minute Read Written by Jason Phelps We all want to be our self. To find a place of satisfaction with who we are. Yet, the place of satisfaction feels so elusive. Why? To be satisfied with my self, I need to know myself Who is my true self? I work hard in …
Finding Jesus in Unexpected Places (with our vulnerable neighbors)
• 5 Minute Read Recently, I wrote about the wondrous way in which the glorious God encountered in Isaiah 6 is shown to us in the Gospel of John to be Jesus (read Here) . We discovered that we too can see the glorious God when we look to Jesus. Of course it should …
What Does God’s Glory Look Like? (Isaiah and Jesus)
• 4 Minute Read God is Holy. God is Glorious. God is robed in Splendour. All facts. All true. All hard for me to wrap my finite human mind around. And maybe that’s the point. Maybe we simply aren’t supposed to understand this aspect of God. At the same time. Our knowledge and understanding …