Forgiveness is a very easy topic until someone steals money from you. This is a very easy topic until you find out they’ve been sleeping with her or him for at least a few years. It’s rainbows and unicorns until it gets real. It’s a neat topic for children but at some point in life – it gets real. It gets hard. The test of the true followers of Jesus is not loving your neighbors. It’s loving your absolutely awful neighbors – you know the ones who call the police on you. It’s not loving your wife, its loving her when she tells you what she did. It’s not loving your kids, it’s loving them when they tell you they are coming out of the closet. We talk about unconditional love, but for many of us – our love and our forgiveness are very conditional. Lets dig in.

What is the compounding effect of having music, video, notifications, pings, and dings filling our eyes and ears all day and night? Booth Business School at the University of Chicago conducted a study and found that checking email and social media is more addictive – MORE addictive than cigarettes and alcohol. in this message, we dig into what the Bible can teach us about hearing God's voice in a noisy world.

A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky In this episode we talk about hell, its origins and what the Bible actually says about the destruction of the wicked.