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I thought I would share one segment from our Easter Sunday 2015 services since it so very much aligns with my theology of faith and the arts. I love how this piece exudes creativity, childlike fait……

“Jesus loves the little children, all the children of the world!” Our little two year old granddaughter who has been on more continents in her short life than many adults, was singing t……

If you read Matthew 20:1-16, you’ll see that its a parable about men being hired to work in a vineyard at various times of the day. The people who were hired la…

Jesus, in Matthew 10:42, makes a startlingly significant promise about a seemingly small act of service: “And whoever gives one of these little ones even a cup of cold water because he is a disciple, truly, I say to you, he will by no means lose his reward.” In that verse, Jesus is referring to His apostles as “these little ones.” And later, in Matthew 25:31-46 Jesus broadens His statement about “I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink” to “whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me” (v. In this video you will meet Luci, a sister in Christ in another part of the world where her life—and those of “the least of these” in her community—radically changed due to the accessibility of fresh water through Water Mission, an organization I truly believe in. It’s not that those things are inherently bad; simply consider their temporal nature and the longer lasting, and so eternally beautiful impact of money given to reach the unreached, get clean water to a remote village, feed hungry children, or educate young people so they can get good jobs and thrive.…

What do you see when you look at people? When you look at people, what do you see? Original sin, or original kingdom? Since at least the fourth century, theologians have described the essential human state as original sin. Adam and Eve lost their pure identity and become corrupt, so...…

Jesus genuinely enjoyed children with their wide-eyed wonder. Do you see as Jesus saw? In church, people often worry about how to get our children saved. Some who baptize babies fear the infant wil……

Are you familiar with the term, “Tiger Mom”? That’s a mom that has authoritarian parenting methods, and pushes their kids toward academic achievement and loads them up with lots of extracurricular ……

Jesus was never violent. So why would he talk about drowning, amputating limbs, and burning people alive? Matthew 18:6 (original translation, compare NIV)But anyone who trips up one of these little……

Jesus’ answer for what’s wrong is not exclusion: it’s the radical inclusion that comes from restoring our brokenness to wholeness.…

By Elizabeth Prata EPrata photo I’m on Twitter a lot (now called X). I get the headlines and weather in just a few lines. I commune with Christian friends, both virtual and in real life that ……