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Jesus > Religion: Why He Is So Much Better Than Trying Harder, Doing More, and Being Good Enough is unavailable, but you can change that!

Abandon dead, dry, religious rule-keeping and embrace the promise of being truly known and deeply loved. Jefferson Bethke burst into the cultural conversation with a passionate, provocative poem titled "Why I Hate Religion, But Love Jesus." The 4-minute video became an overnight sensation, with 7 million YouTube views in its first 48 hours (and 23+ million in a year). Bethke's message clearly...

follower of him until they took up the most brutal torture device ever invented, the cross?11 One of my favorite verses can be found in the book of Isaiah: “All of us have become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags.”12 We often miss that our “righteous acts” are “filthy” before God. Not just our bad days, but our extremely good days too! Praying, reading the Bible, giving to the poor, and going to church nine times a week? Filthy rags apart from Jesus and his