Turning the Other Cheek
Turning the other cheek is not submission. It is the refusal to let humiliation define the encounter. When no physical harm has been done and no repair is required, forgiveness can be immediate. Love interrupts domination without retaliation and walks away unashamed—free without becoming violent.
The Faith of the Centurion
“For by grace you have been saved through faith” describes a gift already given and waiting to be received. Faith is not mere belief, but an ontological place—what Jesus calls the Kingdom—entered through alignment with love. Grace does not wait to be earned; it becomes receivable when one lives within that place.
Seven Imperatives to Salvation
Jesus does not offer salvation as a checklist. He offers orientation. Repentance is not avoiding a line, but turning toward love—following, forgiving, refusing final judgment, and caring for the least. That clarity is harder than rules, and far more demanding.
The Hazard of Force
The Minneapolis shooting is not only a question of justice, but of tragedy—where armed authority, fear, and human judgment collided. Neither side woke intending death. Recognizing this does not excuse harm; it restores our humanity, tempers division, and reminds us that power is dangerous and life remains fragile.
Faith and Works
I no longer ask whether I am “saved” the way I once demanded to know. Not because the question is meaningless, but because it no longer governs me. As love is taken seriously, everything widens—Scripture, the world, even God’s silence—until coherence itself begins to feel like liberation.
Jonah Read Through Myth
Jonah isn’t about a fish. It’s about what it feels like to run from truth—descent, isolation, loss of control—and the mercy that still waits when we turn back. Mythic doesn’t mean false. It means truth told in a form humans can carry.
Not All Sin Is Mortal
“All wrongdoing is sin,” John says—but not all sin leads to death.
John isn’t ranking sins; he’s distinguishing moral failure from mortal rupture. Sin becomes fatal only when love is rejected. Moral failure can be healed, but death comes from refusing love.
Sin and the Promised Land
After the Exodus, Israel did not fail because of immorality, sin, or disobedience. They remained in the wilderness because of unbelief. The story reveals that what ultimately matters is not rule-keeping, but the heart—and that is the same question salvation still asks of us.
The Logic of Miracles
Salvation is simple because love saves by openness, not performance. Miracles, however, follow a different logic. They require deep alignment—clarity, coherence, and freedom from internal and relational entanglement. Most people are fully saved yet structurally unable to perform high-order miracles. Salvation is abundant; miracles are precise. Love embraces everyone, but only alignment allows love to act through us in extraordinary ways.
A Nation on Trial
True justice is not found in punishment. Punishment may balance a ledger, but it cannot restore what was lost. Real justice would mean life, not death—reconciliation, not separation. It would mean a murderer and the murdered meeting again under grace. Law demands death. Love demands life. And only repentance can bridge the gap between the two.
Free Speech, and the Logic of Love
Free speech, many argue, must be absolute. Yet law, by nature, restrains—and freedom under law is never truly free. Only love can sustain absolute speech, because love restrains itself, not others. This paradox means freedom and protection cannot both exist under law, but they can under love, where sacrifice bears wounds without silencing neighbors. From Socrates to the prophets to Christ Himself, speech has always been costly. It is revelation, not permission. True freedom is not law’s decree but love’s endurance—and love, always, demands everything.
When Should God Have Created? The Paradox of Eternal Love and Time
If God is eternal and God is love, then love eternally creates. But why does creation appear to have a beginning? The paradox runs deep: endless succession suggests no true starting point, infinite containment points to creation existing eternally in God’s mind, while singular emergence implies love once existed without creation. Each possibility challenges our categories of time and reason. Perhaps the question cannot be solved—but that itself is instructive. Creation flows eternally from love, reminding us that awe, not resolution, is the truest response.
When Love Looks Like Target
Target’s inclusivity campaigns—whether Pride displays or mannequins of diverse body types—have often stirred controversy. Yet seen through the lens of love as structure, they become something more: acts of dignity and restoration. Love is not partisan or sentimental; it has form and logic. It protects, restores, and reduces suffering. By portraying disability, difference, and diversity as natural, Target expands the boundaries of belonging. Christians should not condemn but recognize such efforts as expressions of love’s work in society—quiet, imperfect, yet transformative.
Haulover Beach and the Power of Form
Haulover Beach may look like just another clothing-optional space, but its deeper lesson lies in structure. Unlike most institutions that begin with logic, Haulover begins with form—nudity. That single condition creates vulnerability, and vulnerability, in turn, fosters tolerance and respect. Over time, the form itself shapes the culture, producing real inclusion without needing a creed or program. Haulover shows how structure—form plus logic—can quietly rewire community, teaching openness not through words, but through lived practice. It’s a lesson with implications far beyond the beach.
Standing With Pagan Gods
“Stand with Israel to stand with God” is a conviction many hold, but it may reflect more of pagan logic than Christ’s love. Pagan gods were always tribal—ours against theirs, favor for loyalty, blessing for sacrifice. When Christians claim God as partisan, they risk the same pattern: worshiping the true God in a false way. Love is not on a side; it is universal, self-giving, impartial. To stand with God today is not to defend a nation, but to stand in love—alongside the stranger, the oppressed, and even the enemy.
The Pattern of the Antichrist
Across history, empires have risen claiming God’s sanction, yet prophecy warns that every power—religious or political—fades. Daniel and Revelation expose not secret codes but recurring structures: systems that imitate truth while severing it from love. The antichrist is not just a future villain but a recurring possibility—any time we trade grace for control or righteousness for power. The greatest danger is not simply being ruled by the antichrist, but becoming his work while believing we serve the truth. Revelation’s call is clear: remain steadfast in love.
Philosophy and the Lost Art of Politics
Politics cannot be “right” in any moral sense, because to be right would require perfection, and politics is finite. What love offers is coherence: justice for all, not just for some, freedom that is total, not partial. Compromise is not weakness but the fruit of love’s logic, the only way politics can move toward restoration rather than collapse into slogans.
As Christ Believed – John 3:16
John 3:16 is often read as a simple call to “believe in Jesus,” but the original Greek suggests something deeper: “believing into Him.” This means not only acknowledging Jesus but embodying His values, living what He lived, and believing what He believed. Faith in this sense is not passive but transformative—an immersion into Christ’s mindset and love. It is a covenantal reality that reshapes the heart, producing the fruit of the Spirit, and calling us into a life of grace, renewal, and authentic communion with God.
Quran, Genesis, and the Many Trees
Genesis and the Quran both present humanity with the same paradox: two trees, two choices, two systems. The Tree of Life symbolizes grace and love, a system that renews itself without measure. The Tree of Knowledge embodies law, a system that records every wrong and ends in death. In Genesis, Adam and Eve face this binary choice. In the Quran, Satan’s refusal to bow before Adam dramatizes the same rejection of grace. Both stories converge in the cross, where love restores life beyond the law.
Love and Sex: Beyond Law, Into Coherence
Sex is the perfect test for love. Law can only turn it into shame, because biology never fits the rules. But love reframes it: desire is not sin, biology is not corruption. What matters is trust, consent, honesty, and protection. That’s why the real breakthrough is this—love is not just a virtue or a feeling, it is structure, the very logic that holds God’s love, and our lives, together.