Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority, but to their inhumanity.
04285 – Inferiority vs. Inhumanity
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04226 – The Deep Work of Character Formation
The curse is, you will be tempted to believe that you can live your life off your gifts and not do the deep work of character formation. Your gifts can take you only so far. But there are no such limits when it comes to a life marked by deep character. --from The...
04202 – Lies, Lies, and More Lies!
This constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie, but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore. A people that can no longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot distinguish between right and wrong. And such a people, deprived of the...
04161 – Kindness, Mischief, Singing
I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. Also in singing, especially when singing is not necessarily prescribed.
04136 – Proving Your Humanity?
You shouldn't have to convince someone of your humanity by letting them dig through your deepest wounds, and waiting to see if they believe the blood.
04109 – Obey Men or Obey God?
If religious patriarchy was true, the angel of the Lord would have spoken first to Manoah about the miraculous conception of Samson. Instead, he spoke to Manoah’s wife—a woman—alone (Judges 13:2-24). If religious patriarchy was true, the angel Gabriel would have...
04075 – …Until Music
Some young people don't succeed until music. Some don't feel part of something until music.Some don't feel comfortable until music.Some don't feel included until music.Some don't feel understood until music. Some don't believe until music. Music can make all the...
04029 – Faith: NOT an Electric Blanket
I think there is no suffering greater than by the doubts of those who want to believe. I know what torment this is, but can only see it, in myself anyway, as the process by which faith is deepened. What people don't realize is how much religion costs. They think faith...
03944 – Need to Make Significant Changes?
One of the great deceptions many dying churches believe is that they don't need to make any significant changes; they just need a pastor to help them continue doing what they have always done.
03899 – Neighbors to be Loved
One of the biggest things that made me doubt the Evangelical Christianity of my past was actually meeting all the people I was told to fear, distrust, and treat as my “enemy,” only to find that they were incredible, kind, thoughtful, complex and beautiful people loved...