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"Jesus chose Losers. Not always a smart choice to further his cause. But to be loved by the Son of God, one must become counted among the child-like losers." Constance Hastings

The Trouble With Jesus...

The Trouble with Jesus is he wasn’t betrayed by just one guy.
By Constance Hastings 27 Mar, 2024
. Before Jesus even got into town, they lined the road, spreading a carpet of coats and shouting, “Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord.” Expectations were high. If only he had come to fulfill them....With too much popularity and too many attacks on the powers-that-be, Jesus wasn’t making it easy on himself. Sooner or later, someone was going to put a stop to this. As it was, it wasn’t just one.
The Trouble with Jesus is his love is  counter-cultural, an intimate, dangerous act of shared powe
By Constance Hastings 25 Mar, 2024
It’s hard to allow the less attractive parts of ourselves be exposed, let alone the parts which stink, with warts, bunions, and fungus embedded in the nails. Equally difficult is to accept it from one of whom we think so highly, even worship.... Worse yet, maybe they know us better than we think, better than we know ourselves. Their goodness shouldn’t be sullied with our mean stuff, the secret knowledge of ourselves. Why does God have to come so close?
The Trouble with Jesus is he takes what seems to be and reverses it into a new reality.
By Constance Hastings 18 Mar, 2024
Appearance vs. Reality: commonly thought to be a literary device or a philosophical question. What you “see” points to something greater, that is, what is not necessarily visible or experienced with the usual senses...This day was one of them. Cheer from the sidelines or join in the parade. But store your expectations for another day.
The Trouble with Jesus: The Pastor of Paradox teaches lose your life for him to keep it.
By Constance Hastings 11 Mar, 2024
People say they want it all, the best life possible. It’s like saying what they want but not really wanting what they say. Jesus says he wants the same, but not more of the same.
The Trouble with Jesus: One can’t know Love without knowing its Lover.
By Constance Hastings 04 Mar, 2024
So God loves and God gives. God gives God’s self in human form who lived and died for real, reversing trouble by reversing where trouble ends into what God and every created person wants, not death but life that fulfills Love. Love. For the Love of God, Jesus came. Not to condemn, not to bring judgement, but to bring Love.
The Trouble with Jesus: slinging righteous anger and a whip may have let them off easy.
By Constance Hastings 26 Feb, 2024
Ok, you’ve lost it with this one. Jesus, the one sent from God as the Son of God, goes ballistic right outside his church. In this day and age, he’d be taken in as a terrorist. Whatever happened to being the Light of the World and Love and all that kind of sweet, meek-and-mild Jesus? And he’s angry, raging-mad kind of angry? Are you saying this is ok with God? Sorry people, but this doesn’t seem like the right road we should follow here. Too many people are going to get hurt if you get behind this guy.
The Trouble with Jesus is he taught not what God is against so much as what God is for.
By Constance Hastings 19 Feb, 2024
Dear, Dear Jesus, Oh Son of Man, you gotta just calm down. Really, calling your best man a “Satan”? Peter was just trying to talk some sense into you. He’d already settled it. You are the Messiah. (Mark 8:29) The twelve in your crew are behind you. Now, organize your heavenly forces, march into Jerusalem, and take that city. All of Israel will flock to your side, and the filthy Romans will flee fast on the roads they built for themselves. Face it; You are THE Man! If only...but that wasn't the plan...
The Trouble with Jesus means treasures dear to God are the ashes of our lives.
By Constance Hastings 12 Feb, 2024
The Trouble with Jesus means our treasures are most dear to God when they are the ashes of our lives. Whatever upholds justice and love of neighbor is what God desires.
The Trouble with Jesus: If all God leaves us in the mess we call life, what’s the point of God?
By Constance Hastings 05 Feb, 2024
We’ve got a right to ask, God what’s the plan here? Are you there or are we just left hanging while God watches disinterestedly from the cosmos?
The Trouble with Jesus: He kicked evil to the curb only for it to go after him in another place.
By Constance Hastings 29 Jan, 2024
Preach all you want, pass all the laws you can, write all the books you can ink, broadcast the experts, stream all kinds of authority. But hatred, racism, sexism, slavery, political and economic oppression, whatever pounds the spirit into oblivion, will rear its ugly head in another time and place. Whereas Jesus may have dealt defeat over that day’s expression of evil, it did not disappear…
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Rev. Constance Hastings

Author of, soon to be released,  The Trouble With Jesus

Easy answers are not my goal, so you won’t get from me a saccharine-sweet line. We’ve all experienced too much to swallow them and be satisfied. I’ve lived long enough to know trials and challenges will sink your soul if that’s all you’ve got in your grasp. On the other hand, the hard questions can be the ones that take a person to new heights of perspective while providing foundations that are as old as excavated rocks. Tough, scary questions are the ones with most value in a fully examined life.
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