The Trouble with Jesus

by Constance Hastings

The Trouble with Jesus: He plays with our common assumptions about God to shock us into new faith.
By Constance Hastings October 6, 2025
The Trouble with Jesus is he plays with our common assumptions about God to shock us into a faith that won’t let go.
The Trouble with Jesus: He teaches by taking our questions and giving answers we didn't see.
By Constance Hastings September 29, 2025
So Jesus, ... to get through this life, you ask for this thing called faith. How is that just wishful hope for something to hang on to, even if it’s not real? Oh, you’re good at telling us how much a person has to have. Mustard-seed size, you say. That kind of example may have worked in your day, but if you are going to take me down this exercise of improbability, give it to me in some way I can wrap my head around it.
The Trouble with Jesus: He warns  how self-centered intentional blindness...
By Constance Hastings September 22, 2025
The Trouble with Jesus: He warns how self-centered intentional blindness contributes to pain and agony, forming chasms of eternal separation.
The Trouble with Jesus: Even his stories from the shady side of life show what God desires.
By Constance Hastings September 16, 2025
The Trouble with Jesus: He will use whatever he can, even stories from the shady side of life, to get people to understand what God desires for the world.
The Trouble with Jesus: His stories make God look desperately unsatisfied, on the prowl for more.
By Constance Hastings September 8, 2025
The Trouble with Jesus: His stories make God look desperately unsatisfied, on the prowl for more, regardless of whether they’re lost or don’t know how lost they are.
The Trouble with Jesus: He made a life lesson on humility into a blessed honor.
By Constance Hastings August 31, 2025
Jesus, you are the perfect example of the observation, “When you are invited to a dinner, you are either a guest or you are part of a menu.” Everybody is always watching you, sizing you up, holding their breath to see what you might do next. You look like you’re there to eat as much as you’re there to preach.
The Trouble with Jesus: His rhetoric doesn’t permit a domestication of lifestyle covered by religion
By Constance Hastings August 25, 2025
The Trouble with Jesus: His scandalous rhetoric doesn’t permit domestication of lifestyle covered with a veneer of religion.
The Trouble with Jesus: ihe brings upheaval into how the world works, even when it hurts his cause
By Constance Hastings August 18, 2025
This reads like Jesus is being attacked for healing on the Sabbath. It's more than that which brings big trouble. Jesus was breaking Sabbath by breaking perceptions of what the social and religious structure of the world should be, wreaking and crumbling the caste system of the entire religious culture.
Truth Burns: The Trouble with Jesus is he makes political divisions look tame.
By Constance Hastings August 11, 2025
You know what, Jesus? This makes you certified dangerous. So you’re going to bring fire, division and family dysfunction? Like we need your divine help on this one. Incendiary talk won’t get you votes on making our world better. More like, arrested and put away for good. Yeah, you ask for it.
The Trouble with Jesus is he both brings and requires reversals.
By Constance Hastings August 4, 2025
Jesus. We need help. No, make that, you need help. Whatever. You spin this talk about treasure in heaven and then getting robbed. About being the revered master and then acting like you’re the slave. Come on here. Say what you mean and quit making it so hard for us to get it.