Why We Must Confront to Connect
For a thousand days, I allowed something to go unsettled and unhealed in both of us because of an offense to my pride.
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The Real Secret to Aging Well & How to Feel the Luckiest About Growing Older Into a Deeply Meaningful Life
Maybe blowing out candles is actually about fanning the flames of genuine thanks.
How to Show Up in Beirut as the Hands of Jesus Right Now (A Surprising Story of Hope)
When it feels like the end of the world — we can show up to prove Hope never ends.
Your Simple Pot of Soup Can Be a World-Changer—Literally
We do anything we can think of to alleviate their pain, to remind them they’re worthy of lovingkindness—because God says they are.
How to Survive This Virus
Chapter 2: Losses Come in Waves: How to Find The Way Through & The Complete Passage Deal
There is no controlling life’s storms, there is only learning to live with waves.
How to Survive This Virus
Chapter 1: This is not a drill. The World’s on Fire. We practiced our faith for days like these.
The only way to travel life’s journey is: Accept brutal hardships on one hand, while gripping Brave Hope in the other.
Why now is the time to start: get ready to rise
She said that as she dreamed of the future, she didn’t expect an easy or straight-forward journey to achievement, but she wouldn’t be deterred either.
There’s No Time Like the Present: Give the Gift of Presence This Christmas
The margin between what those in poverty have and what they need is thin and they are begging God for someone to show up, to use what they have, to be present.
The Difference Between Being Right & Being Loving
The goal is not to win but to be like Christ.
An Invitation to Empathize
In order to move from awareness to acknowledgment, we must first be brave enough to accept the historical truths and modern realities.
How To Forgive When Your Wound is Still Open
Part of our healing comes through lament, acknowledging our pain and the truth of it.
When David Platt asks: Have We Lost Our Capacity to Weep?
We need an experience with the Word in the world that penetrates the recesses of our hearts.
What Love Is – and isn’t
The day everything came to a head was my first experience holding a weeping abuse victim. She was in her thirties; I was nine.
Books, Communion, Conversations, Faith, Guest posts, Hope, humility, Listening, Refiner's Fire, Restoring Wonder
How Change Can Happen When We Share the Messy Parts of our Stories
Jesus spoke life-altering words, but He backed them up with redemptive action—not only on the cross but through the way He loved people.
The Scale is Not The Boss of You
If only we would stop listening to our measuring sticks and scales and start listening to our promises.
