When Jesus says, “The kingdom of God is like this,” it’s not just a rhetorical device. With those words, a theological event is taking place. Long puts it this way: “The purpose of parables is not ...

To Jesus the Kingdom of God was not a thing to be realized in the distant future, but it was to be achieved here and now, for he said: ‘Verily I say unto you, That there be some of them that ...

The Kingdom of God includes things like forgiveness, mercy, justice, chastity, love of the poor, love of one’s enemies, and the celebration of what is good, true and beautiful.

Today’s Gospel invites us to reflect on what the kingdom of God looks like. Jesus offers two analogies, a mustard seed and yeast, and I confess that I don’t find either particularly compelling.

Invitations to join the story of Jesus Christ are all throughout our world because his Spirit is all throughout our world.

To seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness is to “desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one,” the city prepared for us by God (Hebrews 11:16).

The Kingdom of God would be less visible in our world without these beautiful, joyful, yet, in some ways, vulnerable people who deserve and who call forth from us our love and care.

He constantly upends the socially and religiously normative views about who counts and who doesn't, who is deserving and who isn't, who God favors and who God doesn't. One of my favorite parables ...

But it wasn’t until he came to Calvin that he began to consider the impact of food systems on God’s creation as a whole. After doing some teaching, writing and lecturing on these topics, Halteman, in ...

The new way of thinking was that God was calling his people to establish the Kingdom now. To put it another way, Christians had marching orders—a mandate for aggressive social and institutional ...

God Wants You To Be Rich (2021) : Throughline In the New Testament, Jesus says it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God. In the ...