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As we reflect on the transformative truth of 2 Corinthians 5:17, we are reminded that in Christ, we are not just improved versions of ourselves; we are new creations. This radical change calls us to reconsider how we embody compassion...
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In the gripping film *Gravity*, we meet Ryan Stone, a brilliant scientist floating aimlessly in the void of space. Following the tragic loss of her daughter, Ryan feels utterly untethered—not just from the physical world, but from the very essence...
In *The Fellowship of the Ring*, amidst the grandeur of wizards and the might of warriors, it is the humble hobbit, Frodo Baggins, who steps forward and volunteers for an impossible mission. Picture the scene: the flickering light of the...
Imagine a quiet, sun-drenched desert, where the golden dunes stretch endlessly beneath a relentless blue sky. Off in the distance, the air shimmers with heat, and there stands Moses, a man torn between two worlds. He is a shepherd, a...
In December 2022, a massive winter storm stranded over four thousand travelers at Denver International Airport for three days. Strangers who would never have spoken...
In 2019, photographer Lindsay Adler gave a TED Talk in New York where she showed two versions of the same portrait. The first had been...
In centering prayer, we learn to release our thoughts — not to grasp, not to cling, but to let each one drift past like a...
In 1980, a team of restorers began the painstaking work of cleaning Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling in Vatican City. For nearly five centuries, candle soot,...
In February 1974, Alexander Solzhenitsyn sat in his Moscow apartment knowing Soviet agents were coming to arrest him. He had spent years documenting the horrors...
In 1660, a traveling tinker and lay preacher named John Bunyan was arrested near the village of Lower Samsell in Bedfordshire, England, for conducting a...
In 1980, a team of restorers climbed scaffolding in the Sistine Chapel to begin one of the most controversial art restorations in history. For nearly...
When the congregation at Hope Community Church voted to establish a reparations fund, not everyone was cheerful about it. Some questioned whether a small church...
In a rust-belt neighborhood where the last grocery store closed two years ago, a small Progressive congregation tore up their parking lot. Not to expand...
In centering prayer, we are taught to release our sacred word — not to grip it, but to let it rise and fall like breath....
In *Braveheart*, the iconic cry of William Wallace—“Freedom!”—resonates deeply not just because of its power, but because the film painstakingly illustrates the profound cost of that freedom. Imagine the chill of the Scottish highlands as Wallace, portrayed with fierce determination,...
When Paul wrote that God loves a cheerful giver, he was writing to a community organizing mutual aid across ethnic and economic lines. The collection...
When a small Progressive congregation in Portland installed a community fridge on the sidewalk outside their building, some members worried about liability. Others questioned whether...
The exiles' hope and future ultimately pointed to Christ. Seventy years later, they returned to rebuild—but the real fulfillment came centuries after, when the One who IS our hope and future arrived. Jesus is God's plan for prospering humanity. He...
"In this church age, believers are new creations—something not available in prior dispensations in the same way. We have the indwelling Spirit, union with Christ, new nature. The church is the community of new creations awaiting the rapture when our...
"When you receive Christ, you become a new creation. The old life is gone; a new life has begun. This isn't reformation but transformation—not turning over a new leaf but receiving a new life. You must be born again, and...
"The crucified peoples know bodily wasting—martyrdom, poverty, violence. But inner renewal persists; hope refuses to die. Light affliction? The suffering is not light—but the coming glory is heavier still. Eyes fixed on the kingdom of justice, the poor endure." — Jon Sobrino.
"Don't lose heart! Your body may be tired but your SPIRIT is being RENEWED! DAY BY DAY! The Holy Spirit REFRESHES you! What you're going through is LIGHT compared to the GLORY coming! Fix your eyes on the PROMISE! Supernatural...
"New creation is not escape from the world but the transformation of the world. The old structures of domination pass away; new relations of justice and solidarity emerge. To be in Christ is to be committed to new creation in...
"When the Spirit comes in, everything changes! Old habits fall away; new desires arise. New creation isn't gradual improvement but supernatural transformation. The same Spirit that raised Christ creates NEW LIFE in you—right now, powerfully, completely!" — Smith Wigglesworth. Pentecostal Spirit-transformation.