Sitemap - 2020 - Along the Way with Jonas Ellison
The Accuser Within Can Never Lead Us to Freedom
[Sermon] Christ, the Essence of the Human
Trying to be a god is a lot of work
Remember to delight in your life
When you don't need a universalist
A Prayer for the Proud and Lonely
Yeshua (the compelling nature of Jesus)
Trump Is the Most Biblical President That I Can Remember
Mirrors of the human situation
Turning Commands Into Promises
The Eternal Hell of Personal Potential
May your gospel-driven joy piss off all the uptight Christians
Faith Starts Where Self-Help Ends
The Holy Nature of Distraction
(The Pastor) The Neediest One in the Room
Why Is It So Hard to Just… Behold?
From the Mouth of a Fellow Sinner
Getting It All Right Is Impossible
A Nuanced Look at How Our Lives Are Made New
What the California Wildfires Have Taught Me About Being Human
The American Dream (or the American Nightmare)?
Never Lose Your Sense of Humor
Leisure Is a Quality of Spirit
The tyranny of legalistic morality without forgiveness and redemption
The Sacred Nature of Consumption
True worthiness is accepted, not performed
External Bluetooth Speakers: The Bane of Modern Existence
When Keeping Score In Life Proves Utterly Impossible
I need more than just a “Divine Spark”
A (short) prayer for the inner cynic
The Love That Creates Love Out of the Unlovable
God makes masterpieces out of our messes
A New Seminary and Hanging our Hats Under the Starry Skies of Northern California
Recommended (required?) watching/listening...
On honest conversations and the supposed heresy of oneness
On culpability, crowds, and the waters of my baptism
Questions + Opinions: Spring 2020
We are not removed from the valley
[Podcast] Episode 9: Third Sunday of Easter
The power to become children of God
Not sure if you got it or not...
Table Talk: Episode 7 (Easter)
The Holy Spirit Does the Heavy Lifting
Passing the Mic: What's unexpectedly delighting you?
Passing the Mic: Pandemical Lament
A Guided Contemplative Exercise: Dialogue with the Crucified God
Table Talk: Episode 5 (5th Sunday in Lent)
Do you see the scapegoat here?
Physical (not social) distancing
Your kid(s) and the Law (aka you)
Anxious-scrolling through it all
Never Lose Your Sense of Humor
Ode to churches who aren’t great at live-streaming
We are all intimately connected
Where three are gathered (Things get reeeeeeally complicated)
The eternal cosmic refresh button
More of an upward grasp than a downward fall
Even Jesus got annoyed with people
Theosis and the divine garment
The omnipresent digital mirror
The existential purification rite of hell
Judgment never has the last word
Spiritually-inclined people, keep moving
Getting past the call-to-action
God can't punch you in the face
God isn't in the self-improvement business
Welcome to Table Talk: An announcement
We Do Not Have Too Much Time...
[A Question for You] What Does Faith Mean to You?
Substitutionary Atonement and Human Resistance to Indebtedness
If Being Good Is Based on Making Others Bad...
Does Too Much Love Lead Us to Evil?
Reverse-Advent (and an ode to those who still have their Christmas lights up)
When/if those New Year's goals don't pan out...
The Bible is rated R (at least)
Good things happen when you burn incense