You're gonna have to serve somebody Well, it may be the Devil or it may be the Lord But you're gonna have to serve somebody. ~ Bob Dylan

Faith, Hope, & Love as a rubric for caring conversation.

Becoming disciples of Jesus will include reevaluating our relationship with money and materialism. In our capitalist society, where greed fuels growth, few topics will demand more commitment to live counter-culturally.

The Lord's Prayer is our daily opportunity to run into the arms of our loving Father and find freedom, rest, and peace.

Prayer is a response to the God who has spoken first.

God wants to free us from our addiction to human approval and praise through his own unconditional acceptance.

"It's not about religion, it's about relationship." Really? But how do we have a relationship with an invisible silent friend?

At the heart of Christian spirituality is a secret life of communion with God. This is the way to rich "reward."

Jesus leads us from mere religious holiness to relational wholeness. He is teaching us how to be "perfect" in mercy, not just morality.

Love, not law, is the way to maximum human flourishing.

Using others as kindling to stoke our inner fires of desire is one of the ways we devalue and dehumanize God's image on earth.

The "A.B.C.s" of following Jesus: Ask, Believe, and Commit to Community.

Jesus teaches his disciples how to internalize and metabolize the teaching of the Bible to energize our spiritual lives.

Jesus leads us into a righteousness that goes above the law to find the love, and goes beyond justice to mercy.

Life is love, period. Everything else is commentary.

Disciples of Jesus are meant to get out of the saltshaker and into the world.

In the Beatitudes we see who Jesus is and we see who we are becoming.

Jesus-people have the privilege of forming an alter-culture of good company where we celebrate grace with joy, despite persecution.

Peacemaking goes beyond being nonviolent to actively engaging in the work of mediation and reconciliation.

War is almost always about land. Jesus says the gentle will get it all in the end, and he invites us to join his military of meekness.