A Man Named Matthew: a morning devotional on Matthew 9: 9-13 #devotional open.substack.com/pub/jasonged...

The most persuasive picture of God is often the one that explains our life. But what if a God who explains everything about us has been shaped too closely in our image? Sometimes the picture of God that fits our life most neatly is the one we have arranged ourselves.

Fear has a remarkable way of becoming theological. Over time, our anxiety can sound like divine judgment, and our need for control like divine authority. Eventually, we may have trouble telling where our fear ends and our picture of God begins.

There's a difference between faith and certainty. The people who recognized Jesus in the Gospels were often the ones who had run out of certainty.

Every person eventually encounters questions in life their childhood faith never anticipated. This is an invitation to know Christ more deeply, not defend a version of God we learned long ago.

When you orient your life to anything other than love, no matter what you gain, you risk losing out on the fullness of love. —Carl McColman

www.tiktok.com/t/ZTSqausup/ A Lenten Emphasis Idea for churches and pastors! At Home with God releases in November and is available for preorder now: a.co/d/02lZESqO @ivpress.bsky.social #atonement #lent #church #pastor #Jesus

This reflection on writing first appeared on my Substack. @goodfaithmedia.bsky.social reached out after I published it and asked if they could share it with their readers in July. If you’d like to read “Writing Between Ear and Eye,” you can find it here: goodfaithmedia.org/writing-betw... #writing

Compassion is the sometimes fatal capacity for feeling what it’s like to live inside somebody else’s skin. —Frederick Buechner

When Jesus makes room for someone, the people already at the table are called to make room too.

We can know one true thing about a person and still be wrong about who they are. One part of a story cannot carry the weight of a whole life.

Most of us love the beauty of the word belonging and the idea of a “crowded table.” Then Jesus chooses the guest list, and someone we would not have invited pulls up a chair.

“The test of faith is whether I can make space for difference. Can I recognize God’s image in someone who is not in my image?” —Rabbi Jonathan Sacks

At Home with God: How the Cross Transforms Us (InterVarsity Press)is available for preorder now on Amazon and wherever books are sold. Here’s the Amazon link: a.co/d/0cmj1v2d Preorders help the book find more readers. Thank you for your support!

At Home with God: How the Cross Transforms Us (InterVarsity Press)is available for preorder now on Amazon and wherever books are sold. Here’s the Amazon link: a.co/d/0cmj1v2d Preorders help the book find more readers. Thank you for your support!

A powerful, personal reflection from my friend Mary Alice Birdwhistell on her IVF journey. It's her story. And it's not only her story. Hope, as she reminds us, is the name of the game. goodfaithmedia.org/an-ivf-journ...

The Grain of Love: A Morning Devotional on Philippians 2: 1-11 open.substack.com/pub/jasonged... #devotional #Philippians #Jesus #Christ #Faith

#fireworks #4th #independenceday

Christ does not save the world from a safe distance. He comes down… into hunger, grief, misunderstanding, and need...into the machinery of fear, accusation, violence, and shame. They can kill him, but they cannot make him become like them.

“Berating, scapegoating, or shaming will rarely win us an audience, but if we tread kindly, we may yet bend the ears of the uninterested, the unbelieving, or the apathetic.” —@courtneyellis.bsky.social

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We tend to recognize leadership by confidence, speed, size, and control. A good headshot also helps, preferably one suggesting the person has just returned from solving the future. Then Christ takes the form of a servant…coming close enough to be wounded. And followed. #leadership #christ

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I’m grateful to share another endorsement for At Home with God, this one from the ever-insightful and remarkably prolific Myles Werntz. At Home with God: How the Cross Transforms Us (InterVarsity Press) is available for preorder now on here: a.co/d/0cmj1v2d #atonement #cross #jesus

I note the obvious differences between each sort and type, but we are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike. We are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike. —Maya Angelou

Where the Weight of Your Life Rests (a devotional on Proverbs 3: 5-6) open.substack.com/pub/jasonged... #devotional #proverbs #wisdom #discernment

Here’s another book endorsement, and this one is truly unbelievable. 😂  “The only thing that would make this book better is more cowbell!” —Bruce Dickinson, probably At Home with God is available: a.co/d/02gPXBzf, and wherever books are sold. #atonement #gospel #christ #jesus @ivpress.bsky.social

We sometimes put “old” and “wise” together, and there is truth in that. Wisdom takes time because the years give us material: failures to learn from, losses to soften us, corrections to humble us, graces to remember. But age alone does not make us wise. (1/2)

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What a gift to receive generous book endorsements like this one from @scotmcknight.bsky.social: If At Home with God sounds intriguing to you, and you’d like to preorder a copy, you can do so here: a.co/d/0cADVVRg

One of the greatest blessings in writing At Home with God has been the kindness of people who have been willing to read and affirm the book. What a gift to have @brianzahnd.bsky.social write the book’s foreword, and to receive generous endorsements like this one from @scotmcknight.bsky.social: (1/5)

A trustworthy leader does not merely ask for truth. A trustworthy leader supports the kind of space where the truth is safe enough to tell. When people around us keep editing themselves, we should ask what our presence has taught them.

Some rooms look calm because everyone has learned where not to step. Peace built on avoidance isn’t peace. It’s choreography.

The stronger the leader, the less fragile the room should feel when truth enters it.

When a secret becomes part of the architecture, disclosure feels like demolition. But sometimes demolition is the beginning of repair.

Some truth arrives like a crisis because it was denied the chance to arrive as a conversation.

Integrity: A Whole Heart (A Devotional meditation on Psalm 15) #integrity #faith #wholeness #devotional open.substack.com/pub/jasonged...

Read the full @baptistnews article here: baptistnews.com/article/demo... #faith #democracy

Read the full @baptistnews article here: baptistnews.com/article/demo... #faith #democracy

Read the full @baptistnews article here: baptistnews.com/article/demo... #faith #democracy

Several months ago, I was asked to contribute to this Christianity and Democracy series currently running on @baptistnews.com. My assignment: “Democracy as a Moral Practice, not just a system.” Click here to read it: baptistnews.com/article/demo... #faith #politics #democracy #character #formation

Being challenged as I learn about Black love lenses from this wonderful book by Chante Griffin. Since I know some of us are more attentive to good resources like “Loving your black neighbor as yourself” on days like #Juneteenth, I thought I would share this great, faith-rooted work today.

Read more here: open.substack.com/pub/jasonged... @pjpalmer39 #integrity #wholeness

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What Secrets Do While They Wait - a reflection prompted by the film, Disclosure Day #DisclosureDay open.substack.com/pub/jasonged...

A sneak peak at the dedication for “At Home with God: How the Cross Transforms Us” @christysedwards.bsky.social 🫶🏻🙏🏻❤️✝️ (preorder here: a.co/d/04iAAJiw) #cross #atonement #Jesus #Christ

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