You can be flawed, anxious and sometimes irritated, but don't forget that your life is the greatest company in the world. Only you can prevent her from going into decline. There are many who appreciate, admire and love you. And you don't know but there are people for...
This is how you pray continually, not offering prayer in words, but by joining yourself to God through your whole way of life, so your life becomes a continuous and uninterrupted prayer.
Love is a virtue and not a feeling. It is fed and fired by God--not by the favorable response of the beloved. Even when it doesn't seem to make a dime's worth of difference to the ones on whom it is lavished, it is still the most prized of all virtues because it is at...
We know that the God we worship is not a shiny-toothed motivational speaker churning out cheerful memes in times of suffering. We know that the God we worship is a crucified and risen God...not unfamiliar with darkness.
There are two kinds of "everybody is welcome" churches: Everyone is welcome to conform to the church's image of what a Christian looks like. Everyone is welcome to fully embody the unique image God created them to be. Run away from the first and run toward the...
Just because someone plays Beethoven badly doesn't mean Beethoven was a bad composer. Just because someone lives the Christian life poorly doesn't mean that Jesus isn't worth following. God doesn't ask you to be like Christians. He asks you to be like Jesus Christ....
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...
The kingdom of God is not us versus them. It's us for them.
In this season of continued healing, I am soaking the powerful words of Julia Watts Belser deep into my own bones: “Disability has taught me much about the potent spiritual subversiveness of being radically comfortable in my own skin, of daring to find the presence of...
God did not design us to have the same opinions, but to have the same mind—the sound mind, the renewed mind, the one mind--of Christ. To put on the mind of Christ, though, is not to put on a cloak of one color but to put on a many-colored, many-splendored cloak. Not a...