To have the shalom of God rest on you was to experience the life God intended all humanity to live in — one that was whole, and free, redeemed and restored.

God is always present, always at work, so there are no God-forsaken situations, only situations that have been forsaken by His followers.

Jesus came to inaugurate a kingdom — one not built through oppression and domination, but one propelled by love and compassion. And His way was the way of the cross.

Have you ever been physically in one place, but your mind is somewhere else? It’s as if your mind is working overtime on something elsewhere, somewhere supposedly “important.”