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Let the Word Read Me
I’ve spent a lot of time reading the Bible. I’ve studied the stories. I’ve learned the names. I’ve memorized verses. I’ve listened to sermons explaining what happened thousands of years ago. But somewhere along the way, I began asking a different question: What if the Bible isn’t asking me only to understand what happened to… Read more
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The Way Is Love
There is a tension in my understanding of Jesus that I have wrestled with for a long time. I believe Jesus is the Way. But I struggle with the idea that following Jesus means believing that everyone who doesn’t identify with Christianity is somehow separated from God. Because if I look at the teachings of… Read more
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How Can Today Not Be a Good Day?
How Can Today Not Be a Good Day? How can you not be excited, happy, and grateful today? You woke up. Before you do anything else, just let that sink in. You opened your eyes. You took a breath. You have another day in front of you. Someone, somewhere, woke up today and wished they… Read more
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Change the story and the story changes
Change the Story, Change the Life Change the story, and the story changes. It sounds almost too simple. Yet this may be one of the most powerful principles we can apply to our lives. We often believe we experience life exactly as it happens. But that isn’t entirely true. We experience life through the story… Read more
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Jesus, Theology, and the Space Between Them
One of the most important things I have learned in studying Christianity is that there is a difference between what Jesus taught and what Christianity eventually taught about Jesus. Those two things can overlap significantly, but they are not automatically the same thing. That distinction isn’t an argument against Christianity. It isn’t an argument for… Read more
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In Jesus’ Name
I have always found it interesting that we end our prayers by saying, “In Jesus’ name.” For years, I heard it so often that I barely thought about what it meant. Someone would pray, “Lord, please help us…” and then, almost automatically, finish with, “In Jesus’ name, amen.” But eventually I started asking myself a… Read more
Jimmy Perez 
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