Keystone Messages

Systemic generosity keeps your hope where it belongs.

We all worry about money. What if we don't have enough? What if we lose what we have? This simple shift in perspective can free you from financial worries.

Jesus invites us to do what we can do and then let Him do what only He can do.

It has always been natural for people to avoid community. Following Jesus, however, shouldn't be done alone.

Paul writes to early Christians to explain his lifestyle. He adapted to his cultural surroundings in order for people to understand the message of Jesus.

Since the first humans, God has invited them to trust Him about where life is found. Life is full of choices of whether to follow God or to follow your own instincts.

Most people believe that good people go to heaven. What they don’t realize, however, is that nobody knows how good is good enough. Jesus taught that it was forgiven people, and not good people that go to heaven.

Contrary to what many believe, God is not backward-focused. He isn’t trying to drag us back to a primitive, barbaric, regressive, prescientific age. He isn’t opposed to reason, liberation, and progress. Instead, he is pulling and calling and drawing us into greater peace, love, justice, connection, honesty, compassion, and joy. When you believe that, everything changes.

Regardless of your beliefs, actions, failures, mistakes, sins, or opinions, God is FOR you. He wants you to flourish and thrive in this world. Contrary to popular belief, God is not angry and full of hatred. He is not waiting to judge you unless you do or say or perform or believe the right things. Jesus taught the radical, refreshing, revolutionary message that God is for you. When you believe Jim, everything changes.

Do you have religious doubts? When your prayers go unanswered, do you wonder if God exists? Have you ever felt forced to choose between belief in God and trusting in science? Perhaps the cause of your tension is poor expectation about who God is. When we begin at the beginning, we realize that, at His core, God is for us.