We run our website the way we wished the whole internet worked: we provide high quality original content with no ads. We are funded solely by your direct support. Please consider supporting this project.
![](https://reknew.org/wp-content/plugins/bb-plugin/img/pixel.png)
At the Start of This New Year
Wishing all of you a year filled with an increasing awareness of God’s presence and a willingness to go where he leads you. May you be challenged every day to love outrageously as we are loved by God. May we be one as Jesus and the Father are one.
Peace and blessings,
Greg and the ReKnew Team
Category: General
Tags: Blessing, God's Presence, Love, New Year, Possibility, Unity
Related Reading
![](https://reknew.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/unsplash_52d9133506548_1-150x150.jpg)
Repent! … From the Sin of Religion
People often think that being Christian is about “being religious,” but loving others in the way that Christ instructs us is about as far removed from religion as anything could be. Religion, as I use the term, is a system of beliefs and behaviors one embraces as a means of getting life—whether this be feeling…
![](https://reknew.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/freedom-150x150.jpeg)
God’s Love and Your Freedom
The most distinctive aspect of the revelation of God in Christ is Jesus’ demonstration that God relies on love to defeat his enemies and to accomplish his purposes. More than anything else, it was the perfect love of God revealed in the incarnation, ministry, and self-sacrificial death of Jesus that in principle defeated evil and…
![](https://reknew.org/wp-content/themes/reknew_2015/images/fillerimage-3.jpg)
Guest Post: Culture War Neighbors by Bonnie Kristian
Matteo Parrini via Compfight The first time I was aware of meeting a gay person, I was 18. I took a summer job waiting tables, and it turned out two of my coworkers were attracted to people of the same sex. One, a waiter in his 40s, fit every stereotype on Will and Grace. The…
![](https://reknew.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/crucifixion-150x150.jpg)
The Cross is Revelation and Salvation
The way Christ saved us from the curse of the law was “by becoming a curse for us” (Gal. 3:13). So too, the way Christ freed us from the condemnation of sin and enabled us to “become the righteousness of God” was by becoming sin for us (2 Cor. 5:21). Getting this point is crucial…