Experiencing God’s love FOR me inspires me to invite others to experience it WITH me. There are no good excuses for not sharing good news.

I want to pray so God will change things, but God wants me to pray so he can change me. Things change when I change.

We anticipate the return of Jesus by helping him reclaim his original dream, not by waiting for him to rescue us in a heavenly escape plan. We long for a new beginning for the world, not the end of the world.

The gospel isn’t a carrot on a stick, a promise of a future heaven designed to manipulate us into behaving better. The gospel isn’t good advice to apply to your life. It’s GOOD NEWS about the freedom and flourishing that Jesus is enacting, and it’s happening NOW, in your hearing. Will you trust Jesus today? Will you say yes to the good news?

Revelation unveils a vision of our future where we will live and reign with God in loving communion forever. We are invited to live TODAY in excited preparation for that TOMORROW.

In the battle between truth and deception, we embrace a final victory of love on a cross, not cosmic bloodshed by a violent God. Willing to appear weak and foolish, we overcome the way he overcomes.

Revelation reveals a message of encouragement and freedom to first-century churches not one of disapproval and fear to future churches. Because we are the church, like them we get to live in freedom and not fear.

Since God looks exactly like Jesus, his character is revealed by a slain lamb and not by a roaring lion. Rather than put our trust in the power of this world, we follow the Lamb in self-sacrificial love.

Jesus compels us to trust and follow him now, not to predict or fear the future.

To have emotionally healthy relationships, eliminate “dirty fighting” tactics and fight cleanly for the sake of the relationship.