20 verses to rebuild your faith

Read It Like You're Free Day 19: I Want To Hold Your Ham

Certain ideas get so deeply embedded in the tradition—repeated so often, sung so confidently—that no one stops to ask whether the original actually says what we think it says.

Day 18 God In Technicolor

Hosea looked at a massacre the Bible said God ordered and declared: no, that's not what God wanted. The lens gets better. The picture gets clearer. What we thought God was like five or fifty years ago doesn't have to be what we think forever. Color was always there. We just needed better tools.

Day 15 Won't Let You Go Until You Bless Me

Day 14: Ugly Cross, Beautiful God

Day 12 Reading Outside the Story (Doyle)

Day 11 No One Right Way…But Some Wrong Ways

Day 10: The Bible Keeps Changing Its Mind

"You have heard that it was said... But I say to you... "You have heard that it was said... But I say to

Day 9 Authoritative Is a Nickname for Something Else

💡This is Day/Week 9 of my devotional series on "20 Verses to Rebuild Your Theology." I'm particularly proud of this

Day 8 Scripture Is Inspired and So Am I

Part 2: Some Ground Rules We've established who God is—love itself, characterized by patience, kindness, gentleness, and all the fruits of the

Day 7: If It Ain't Setting You Free, It Ain't True

"You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free." — John 8:32 The Great Protestant Irony There's a

Day 6 Don't Confuse Jesus with the Thief

"The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly." — John 10: