The church has always been most alive when it remembers that the gospel belongs to every people. From the beginning, the Spirit has pushed believers beyond their familiar worlds. The early church in Acts was born multiethnic, multi-lingual, and radically hospitable. That reality still calls to us today.  Look around your own city. In Australia,…

I grew up in the Midwest, and I remember the first snow day when I was old enough to go shovel the drive. I layered up, put on some boots, and trudged outside to grabbed a snow shovel. In Texas, we don’t often shovel our driveways, but as a native Midwesterner, rest assured that even…

Jesus was a bit of a party animal.   Well, that’s what the religious establishment of his day thought about him, and they had no qualms when it came to expressing their opinions about him. When Jesus responded to the criticism that he was a bit of party animal, he said, “The Son of Man came…