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Reflections Along the Jesus Way
February 1, 2025 - Quote for the Day
“Grace is a multi-layered word. Its many definitions add rich perspectives and significance to our lives. Grace speaks of abundance and gratitude, of charm and inner beauty, of harmony, mercy and forgiveness. We say grace before a meal. A dance or figure skater is graceful. When a dept is owed and a bill is due, grace periods are offered before penalties begin. The world of music speaks of grace notes.”
Originally published in:
Wonders of His Grace
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Reflections Along the Jesus Way
January 30, 2025 - Quote for the Day
“Christ-less religion has always attempted to eliminate authentic Christianity. Religion has opposed authentic Christians during the course of history. Religion attempts to bypass or improve upon Jesus – to modify and even counterfeit him and offer a false gospel and bogus salvation in the process. Jesus sets us free from all such encumbrances that weigh us down, allowing us to love, comfort and reach out to everyone – including refugees who have suffered at the hands of religion. Authentic Christianity teaches that God loves the whole world, while oppressive religion teaches ...
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
January 28, 2025 - Quote for the Day
“Here, in a tiny little backwater town of Bethlehem, our Creator, the Prince of Peace arrived looking more like a little prune-faced pauper than an adorable Gerber baby born into comfort, safety and hygiene. The first Christmas was a long way from the adorable depictions of baby Jesus we see today, in front yards, on Christmas trees and over the mantle of fireplaces. 2000 years later Jesus has been, in the popular version that is taught and imbibed, adorable, repackaged and shrink-wrapped.”
Originally published in:
Christianity Without the Religion magazine, November ...
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
January 25, 2025 - Quote for the Day
“My computer screen flickered for a moment, and then the video my friend from Indiana sent me started to play. An ordinary guy was sitting in front of his computer screen – he looked at me and said: ‘I got an email the other day which said … Jesus loves you.’
Ordinary guy thought, ‘that’s nice,’ but then he read the rest of the email which said…If you don’t start doing what Jesus says you’re going to burn in hell forever.’
Ordinary guy pondered…‘So, this love Jesus has for me is conditional. I can understand that. Love has conditions attached. ...
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
January 23, 2025 - Quote for the Day
“In both his behavior and his teachings Jesus reached out to the downtrodden, offering healing and grace to all those in bondage. He pierced through the crippling aggression of the rich and the slavery of religious power brokers. Jesus flipped the script of what is fair and just, upending traditional ethical assumptions and religious traditions. The Beatitudes then seemed so illogical and counter-intuitive and they still do. Jesus’ teaching reveals the eternal and divine value of vulnerability in the face of danger and gentleness in the face of hatred.”
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Reflections Along the Jesus Way
January 21, 2025 -Quote for the Day
“When truth is fixed, reality adapts to unequivocal, eternal verities. When truth is no longer truth, and every opinion equal, then subjective decisions are more likely to be accepted and tolerated. Every generation that seeks to right all wrongs, finds itself battling with the unsettling reality that others in the past differed, and the notion past generations may have had it more ‘right’ than we do now is not only inconvenient, it is a painful and disconcerting possibility. So why not reject such notions for ‘convenient truth?’”
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Reflections Along the Jesus Way
January 18, 2025 - Quote for the Day
“In a sad but twisted irony, religion not only seduces and deceives its followers (addicts and slaves), but it assures them that they need to endure misery and abuse in order to please and appease God. What a travesty! Religious legalism has turned many of its followers into the walking dead.”
Originally published in:
Unplugging from Religion – Connecting With God
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Reflections Along the Jesus Way
January 16, 2025 - Quote for the Day
“… running around in circles, so consumed with doing and fulfilling religious duties that there is little time to do anything else, let alone think, does not equate to following Jesus Christ… One can think that the highways and byways of Christ-less religion are paths of pleasing and appeasing God, while being absolutely deceived about who God actually is. I was once making excellent progress on a narrow road that was in reality the broad road Jesus spoke of, but in terms of following Jesus I was going nowhere fast.”
Originally published in:
Letters to My Friends – Our ...
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
January 14, 2025 - Quote for the Day
“We don’t pay our own way into the kingdom of heaven. There is no way to honor the Son, no way to accept the invitation, on our terms. There is nothing we can do. We can’t buy a ticket – the invitation is free, without charge. We can’t get in the back door of the kingdom of heaven as a result of purchasing a pass through a religious power broker.
It doesn’t matter how ‘true’ your church is – your church can’t give you a pass into the kingdom of heaven. You may belong to one of the many ‘only true churches’ I have run across in my ministry, but that ...
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
January 11, 2025 - Quote for the Day
“For God so loved the world challenges us because we naturally want to think that God only loves us … or at least, he loves us more. But if he loves the whole world then that means he loves everyone, just as much as he loves you and me!”
Originally published in:
Wonders of His Love
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Reflections Along the Jesus Way
January 9, 2025 - Quote for the Day
“If Jesus showed up today in our towns and cities, in our schools and courtrooms, in our cafes and malls, and yes, in our churches – would we recognize him? Would he resemble what our churches have taught us? Would religion welcome him?”
Originally published in:
Between Religious Rocks and Life’s Hard Places
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Reflections Along the Jesus Way
January 7, 2025 -- Quote for the Day
“Some people have been spiritually crippled all their lives and know no other reality. They have been taught to fear and distrust everyone outside of their group, and they don’t want to be released from the comfort of their closeted world.”
Originally published in:
Bad News Religion
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Reflections Along the Jesus Way
January 4, 2025 -- Quote for the Day
“The baby had created the universe, but he had voluntarily left the pristine perfection of eternity in favor of the mud and filth of that stable – and the dust and grime of the world he would inhabit as he grew up. He chose to come as a baby who would later be delivered via the birth canal and then later spiritually deliver not only Mary, the one who had physically delivered him, but ALL mankind, including those who tortured and crucified him.”
Originally published in: Christianity Without the Religion magazine, December 2022
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Reflections Along the Jesus Way
January 2, 2025 -- Quote for the Day
“We don’t impress God with our religious juggling, our spiritual dances, our religious hand-jive, ballet or soft-shoe. He doesn’t award us spiritual points based on our gymnastic religious performances. He intervenes in our lives, lavishing us with his grace, based on his goodness, not ours.
Think of the wise men from the East who came to visit the newborn Jesus. One day they were leading a normal life, doing their astronomical calculations, consulting their star charts, putting in a 9-5 day, washing their camels and eating dinner with the family at night. They ...
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
December 31, 2024 - Quote for the Day:
“According to ‘Bad News Religion,’ humans need to repent of vices and make every attempt to overcome them and avoid them. According to the cross of Christ, Christians must repent of both vices and virtues. If you are mired in some religious swamp, your own presumed virtues may be a real obstacle that prevents you from accepting Jesus Christ. The cross of Christ means that all we do falls short of God’s perfection, and that nothing we do, be it a vice or a virtue, changes his love for us or his willingness to accept us.”
Originally published in:
Bad News Religion
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Reflections Along the Jesus Way
December 28, 2024 - Quote for the Day:
“The Cross of Christ stands as the crowning, never-to-be surpassed monument to the power of God’s love – when Jesus, out of his love for us, gave us the ultimate gift – himself. The Cross of Christ is the vertical love of God meeting the hatred of our horizontal world – and triumphing over it.
The Cross of Christ is the presence of God in the most ugly, foul and reprehensible evils that will ever occur in the horizontal dimension experienced on our planet earth, taking on his shoulders all the perversion and corruption that mankind has ever or will ever generate – and letting it all be ...
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
December 26, 2024 - Quote for the Day:
“If Jesus had come as a health-and-wealth preacher, then people would have followed him, hoping to improve their physical status in life. He wouldn’t have been despised and rejected – he would have been celebrated.
If Jesus had come predicting the end time, holding huge prophecy crusades, writing a string of best-selling ‘left-behind’ novels, then he would have sold out amphitheaters and stadiums. He wouldn’t have been despised and rejected – he would have been a best-selling author and speaker.
If Jesus had come with a healing crusade, then he would have attracted far more of those ...
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
December 24, 2024 - Quote for the Day:
“… when Jesus was born, he was born far from the doors of any cathedral or temple made with human hands – far from any mega-church campus. The place where Jesus was born had more in common with places today where homeless people fill shopping carts with redeemable containers and poor day laborers wait for someone to hire them… When Mary gave birth, she gave birth to Jesus in a barnyard, and laid him in a feeding trough designed to feed animals. This scene was not a beautiful hospital birthing room – Jesus was not laid in a hygienic room with a window where friends and relatives could view him. ...
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
December 21, 2024 - Quote for the Day:
“I AM One of You” is the Christmas card God sends to each of us! When God, through an angel, informed Joseph that Mary would give birth to Jesus, he said: ‘The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they shall call him Immanuel, which means God with us (Matthew 1:23). God assures us, in his Christmas card, ‘How can I ever forget you? In Christ I became one of you!”
Christianity Without the Religion magazine, December 2021
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Reflections Along the Jesus Way
December 19, 2024 - Quote for the Day:
“The shopping malls are filled with people whose credit cards are maxed out and whose hearts and souls are empty. Simon and Garfunkel reflected – ‘the people bowed and prayed to the neon god they made.’ In Eleanor Rigby, the Beatles sang of ‘all the lonely people’ in a religious, church setting. Loneliness characterizes the lives of those who have not yet seen or embrace the light of Jesus.
I am not alone at all, I thought. I was never alone at all. And that of course, is the meaning of Christmas. We are never alone. Not when the night is darkest, the wind coldest, the world ...
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