Anabaptist LensLines™

calls the community to visible discipleship—Jesus’ way embodied, not merely admired—today, not someday.

In Psalm 52, the kingdom is practiced: enemy-love, simplicity, and truth-telling in public—today, not someday.

Psalm 80:1-2, 8-19 feels unrealistic, it may be because we’ve normalized what Christ calls sin.

Timothy 3:14-4:5 confronts our violence—if we excuse harm, we haven’t understood Jesus—today, not someday.

insists that faith means following Jesus, even when it costs—today, not someday.

confronts our violence—if we excuse harm, we haven’t understood Jesus—today, not someday.

1 Timothy 6:6-19, God forms a people who carry peace into conflict—today, not someday.

2 Thessalonians 1:1-4, 11-12, God forms a people who carry peace into conflict—today, not someday.

calls the community to visible discipleship—Jesus’ way embodied, not merely admired—today, not someday.

calls the community to visible discipleship—Jesus’ way embodied, not merely admired—today, not someday.

Timothy 1:1-14 refuses a private discipleship; obedience must be visible—today, not someday.

In Jeremiah 17:5-10, God forms a people who carry peace into conflict—today, not someday.

confronts our violence—if we excuse harm, we haven’t understood Jesus—today, not someday.

Thessalonians 1:1-4, 11-12 insists that faith means following Jesus, even when it costs—today, not someday.

refuses a private discipleship; obedience must be visible—today, not someday.

calls the community to visible discipleship—Jesus’ way embodied, not merely admired—today, not someday.

11:1-13 insists that faith means following Jesus, even when it costs—today, not someday.

calls the community to visible discipleship—Jesus’ way embodied, not merely admired—today, not someday.

In Luke 18:1-8, the kingdom is practiced: enemy-love, simplicity, and truth-telling in public—today, not someday.

insists that faith means following Jesus, even when it costs—today, not someday.

: In the way of Jesus, it doesn’t flatter us—calls the community to costly discipleship and peaceable witness.

reminds weary hearts that God is near and grace meets us here.

refuses a private discipleship; obedience must be visible—today, not someday.

If Lamentations 1:1-6 feels unrealistic, it may be because we’ve normalized what Christ calls sin.