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People often get upset when you teach them what is in the Bible rather than what they presume is in the Bible.

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True worship is open to God, adoring God, waiting for God, trusting God even in the dark.
When we begin to glimpse the reality of God, the natural reaction is to worship him. Not to have that reaction is a fairly sure sign that we haven't yet really understood who he is or what he's done.
The message of Easter is that God's new world has been unveiled in Jesus Christ and that you're now invited to belong to it.
If you have never felt or known the sheer power and strength of God's love, take another look at Jesus dying on the cross.
It's not great faith you need; it is faith in a great God.
Jesus's resurrection is the beginning of God's new project not to snatch people away from earth to heaven but to colonize earth with the life of heaven. That, after all, is what the Lord's Prayer is about.
Tolerance is a cheap, low-grade parody of love. Tolerance is not a great virtue to aspire to. Love is much tougher and harder.
God is the one who satisfies the passion for justice, the longing for spirituality, the hunger for relationship, the yearning for beauty. And God, the true God, is the God we see in Jesus of Nazareth, Israel's Messiah, the world's true Lord.
If you want to know who God is, look at Jesus. If you want to know what it means to be human, look at Jesus. If you want to know what love is, look at Jesus. If you want to know what grief is, look at Jesus. And go on looking until you’re not just a spectator, but you’re actually part of the drama which has him as the central character.
You become like what you worship