In 2006 a deranged, armed gunman named Carl Roberts entered a one-room Amish schoolhouse in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania, and shot ten girls, ranging in age from six to thirteen years old, killing five. Then he turned the gun on himself and killed himself. But what quickly began to steal the headlines was the way the Amish responded. Amish families i

The reality of divine multiplication is realized only when we allow ourselves to be dependent on God and live in radical interdependence with one another.

Giving is a joy, not a burden. If we can’t give our possessions away, then they possess us. If we aren’t careful, the things we own begin to own us.

“Don’t choose issues; choose people. Come play in the fire hydrants in North Philly. Fall in love with a group of people who are marginalized and suffering, and then you won’t have to worry about which cause you need to protest. Then the issues will choose you.

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“Jesus never says to the poor, ‘Come find the church,’ but he says to those of us in the church, ‘Go into the world and find the poor, hungry, homeless, imprisoned,’ Jesus in his disguises.” I couldn’t help but wonder if we had highlighted only some of the verses in our Bibles,

we need to move beyond “belief only” Christianity. I think that’s what Jesus meant when he said, “For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven” (Matt. 5:20).

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God puts skin on and moves into the neighborhood to live among us. That’s what incarnation means. Now we are to join the incarnation. We are to be the “body of Christ”—the hands and feet of Jesus. God is alive—