I’ve lived in intentional community here at Jesus People USA for the past thirty six years and counting. And I’m going to say it. Sometimes I just hate community. Yes, I mean it. Community is the place where people you’ve lived with for decades still have a peculiar knack for [...]

Today was not a bad day, I cleaned  a little, slept a little, and hunted for bugs in the yard with Eden and his friends. Drank coffee and laughed with someone I have missed. Don brought Jude out and the kids filled up his new watering can and he watered [...]

Dawn Mortimer’s foundational contributions to the heart vision of Jesus People USA cannot be over-estimated. She is currently too ill to have joined the other JPUSA pastors at our annual New Year’s Service, where traditionally each of them deliver a short message of encouragement for the coming year. Dawn, with [...]

In Glenn’s 2013 New Year’s addition to the collection of New Year’s Sunday, he addresses seeking first the Kingdom of God and offers three questions we might ask ourselves in light of that command from Scripture.

Tom’s New Year’s message, one of those offered annually by JPUSA pastors each New Year’s Sunday, discusses peace vs. strife.

I want things to be a certain way. Like everyone, I have expectations. Every Christmas we go to the tree lot, and pick out the biggest tree I can possibly fit in our home. Short needles, no Scotch Pine. White lights, and the ornaments must be just so. Truth be [...]

Part One of our Jesus People USA Advent video series… Tammy Perlmutter recites her poem on “Hope.”  

Jude is excited as we move along the sidewalk, towards the underpass and the lakefront. I am glad we live near the lake. Trails and trees, beaches and sailboats right there whenever we want them. It’s a blessing. I have been counting the blessings lately, cataloging them, sorting through them [...]

Starman There’s a starman, waiting in the sky, he’d like to come and meet us, but he thinks he’d blow our minds… Jude has new clothes. He should be pleased, or indifferent. New clothes are different, though, so it freaks him out. Deeply. “Jude Hills don’t like different,” he informs [...]

Below are some of the memories and reflections from folks here at Jesus People USA (JPUSA) regarding Jews for Jesus’ Jhan Moskowitz. Before recently moving to New York to serve as J for J’s North American Director, he directed the Chicago branch of J for J for twenty five years. [...]