Anabaptist LensLines™

14 encourages small-faithfulness: the peaceable way is quiet, steady, and strong—today, not someday.

encourages small-faithfulness: the peaceable way is quiet, steady, and strong—today, not someday.

16:1-13 calls the community to visible discipleship—Jesus’ way embodied, not merely admired—today, not someday.

In Psalm 19, God forms a people who carry peace into conflict—today, not someday.

If Psalm 66:1-12 feels unrealistic, it may be because we’ve normalized what Christ calls sin.

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

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

confronts comfortable faith—obedience delayed is obedience denied.

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

invites us to mutual aid—no one follows Jesus alone—today, not someday.

66:1-12 calls the community to visible discipleship—Jesus’ way embodied, not merely admired—today, not someday.

calls us to faithful obedience rooted in God's enduring truth and mercy.

If Luke 4:21-30 feels unrealistic, it may be because we’ve normalized what Christ calls sin.

Jeremiah 8:18-9:1, the kingdom is practiced: enemy-love, simplicity, and truth-telling in public—today, not someday.

2 Thessalonians 1:1-4, 11-12 feels unrealistic, it may be because we’ve normalized what Christ calls sin.

29:1, 4-7 confronts our violence—if we excuse harm, we haven’t understood Jesus—today, not someday.

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

confronts comfortable faith—obedience delayed is obedience denied.

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

1:2-10 insists that faith means following Jesus, even when it costs—today, not someday.

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

In Galatians 5:1, 13-25, the kingdom is practiced: enemy-love, simplicity, and truth-telling in public—today, not someday.

Luke 14:25-33 feels unrealistic, it may be because we’ve normalized what Christ calls sin.

3:1-11 encourages small-faithfulness: the peaceable way is quiet, steady, and strong—today, not someday.