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Jesus used brutal images to wake people up. When he talked about “Gehenna,” he wasn’t sketching a blueprint for an eternal torture chamber that God operates like some cosmic executioner. He was doing the opposite of abstract theology: he was using a concrete, gut-level symbol — the Valley of Hinnom — to say, “This is…
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We must be careful not to speak of love as if it were a thing — a static force or substance that exists apart from relationship. Love is not a noun. Love is a verb — an act, a posture, a living current between hearts. It is not something we possess; it is something we…
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Revelation 20:10 is one of those verses that’s been used for centuries to justify a theology of eternal conscious torment, yet when read carefully — in context, in Greek, and in light of the book’s apocalyptic symbolism — it actually teaches something far deeper and more beautiful than most sermons ever admit. The Verse Itself…
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There was a night when I died.Not the kind of death that stops a heartbeat,but the death that silences the self. Under the influence of psilocybin, I was stripped bare before God — not in body, but in being. Every thought, every identity, every defense was peeled away. There was no “Steven,” no personality to…
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Faith is not an achievement. It is not the fruit of superior intelligence, morality, or spiritual effort. Scripture repeatedly insists that faith is granted — bestowed by God’s grace. If we see and hear, it is not because we are wiser or better, but because God has opened our eyes and ears. This truth humbles…
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1. All Things Come from God Scripture is unambiguous: All Things come from God: “All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being.” (John 1:3) All things that exist only exist through God:“For in Him we live and move and have our being.” (Acts…
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Humanity has always wrestled with the tension between God’s will and our own. From the first pages of Genesis, the story of the Garden frames this drama: a choice between the will of God and the will of man. For centuries, interpreters have seen this as a competition, a rivalry of desires. God commands one…
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I don’t stand here as a man who has mastered love. I stand here as a man who is starving for it. I don’t always feel saved by love. More often than not, I feel crushed by loneliness, consumed by shame, and trapped in a body that feels like too much to bear. Sometimes I…
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We believe the world is not held together by fear, control, or judgment — but by love. We reject the false gospel of condemnation. The God revealed in Christ is not waiting to reject us. He has already embraced us. He has already reconciled us. It is finished. We believe: The Logos — God’s eternal…
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“The Father judges no one, but has entrusted all judgment to the Son.”— John 5:22 When we hear the word judgment, most of us picture a courtroom: stern faces, evidence laid bare, a gavel striking with finality. We brace for sentencing, for the punishment that will fall on the guilty. And so when Scripture tells…
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If God is love, then hell as an eternal contract cannot exist — because no valid contract can be signed in ignorance. We are told that hell is the consequence of rejecting God. But for a rejection to be binding, it would have to meet the same conditions we demand of any serious agreement: full…