Bill Vanderbush

“Evil isn't a thing with its own power. It is a no thing, a nothing. It's a parasite. It's a distortion of the good. And in God's divine wisdom, he has given you and I the power and the authority to do something about it.

Understand, picture evil like a shadow that's cast by a bonfire, real enough to actually make you afraid, but it only exists because the light was there first. See, evil is a no thing or a negation of being, a rebellion against the glory of God woven into the cosmos. Humanity and the fallen angels using their God-given freedom to say no to love, twisting the gift of our freed will into pride and greed and destruction, that's what brings this evil about.”

Bill Vanderbush

This is a message that's going to turn some of your assumptions upside down and set your heart ablaze with the truth of what Jesus Christ accomplished on the cross. This is more than just about the forgiveness of your sins. This is about a cosmic victory over death itself. This is a fulfillment of ancient promises and a demonstration of the love of God so fierce that it actually rewrote the entire story of humanity.

Conversion is not about human effort, but about God's transformative grace at work in our lives.

“God is first father, not judge. Don't elevate judge above father. He's a father who has the judgment of a father, and his judgment is based in love.”

Bill Vanderbush

“Athanasius painted a wild and beautiful picture of the love of God, God himself literally crashing into humanity, fully divine, fully human, 100% love. He's saying, look, the creator, God, revealed in Christ, didn't just fix us from a distance. He's not a distant God. He moved into the neighborhood. This isn't some side hustle. He is fully engaged with humanity.”

Bill Vanderbush

“Jesus knew the wilderness very well. And he's going to take that crown of shame into the wilderness of our affliction, infirmity, and sin. And there in the wilderness, he becomes lost, forsaken, you could say, by his own creation.

And why? So that he could redeem us from the curse of the fall. Back in Matthew chapter 3, John the Baptist looked at the religious leaders and said to them, the axe is being laid at the root of the tree.

What tree? The tree of the knowledge of good and evil. The tree that caused us so much trouble in the first place.”

Bill Vanderbush

A First Name Basis by Bill Vanderbush

“It's amazing to me how many people want to substitute the simplicity of the grace of Jesus Christ for a work of some spiritual nature that you do that you made up to somehow try to get close to God. The question is, you know, what is God telling you to do in response to your request to find that place of union and intimacy with his heart? Whatever he tells you to do, I can tell you nothing else will work.”

Bill Vanderbush

The Seed of Christ by Bill Vanderbush

Rediscovering Reverence by Bill Vanderbush