In those moments when we don't think we're smart enough, we're pretty enough, we're skinny enough, we're successful enough, or basically just not enough, I had a woman say to me, "Just know you will never be enough, but you can know the value of your worth if you just...
04027 – Process vs. Outcome
Most people don't want to be part of the process; they just want to be part of the outcome. But the process is where you figure out who's worth being part of the outcome.
03945 – No War is Worth That Level of Destruction
How I wish that no one would suffer and that we would work towards healing what sharply divides us. I think we need to talk about it. “War is what happens when language fails,” Margaret Atwood told us. But there are those who vehemently disagree. They will shout me...
03792 – My Responsibility
If a person is of infinite worth in the sight of God, whether they are saint or sinner, whether they are a good person or a bad person, evil or not, if that is true, then I am never relieved of my responsibility for trying to make contact with this worthy thing in...
03766 – The SBC is Wrong about Women
The Southern Baptist Convention is wrong. Women are worthy of God's calling and find freedom in Jesus Christ. Women are created in the image of the boundless and limitless God.
03253 – Solitude = Fount of Healing
Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living. Talking is often a torment for me, and I need many days of silence to recover from the futility of words.
03252 – Small Steps vs. Giant Leaps
It’s worth remembering that it is often the small steps, not the giant leaps, that bring about the most lasting change.
03239 – People are Sacred; Systems are Not
When you feel overwhelmed in exposing truth, remember this: people are sacred, created in the image of God. Systems are not. They are only worth the people in them and the people they serve. And people are to be treated, whether one or many, the way Jesus Christ...
03204 – Greatest Danger: Fail to Love
The spiritual stature of a person's life is measured by love, which in the end remains “the criterion for the definitive decision about a human life's worth or lack thereof”. Yet some believers think that it consists in the imposition of their own ideologies upon...
03018 – God’s Kingdom is Like…
This is what God's kingdom is like: a bunch of outcasts and oddballs gathered at a table, not because they are rich or worthy or good, but because they are hungry, because they said yes. And there's always room for more.