About Celebrities & Living Small: A Lent to Repent & Live in the Universe of Jesus
Celebrity has platforms to grow brands, Christianity has altars to come and die.
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Celebrity has platforms to grow brands, Christianity has altars to come and die.
There’s a simpler way of seeing the world. Kids have it. Most grown-ups don’t.
Today’s world is full of the same injustice, depravity, conflict, suffering, and hopelessness as the world was in 1815. And yet, the gospel is still just as powerful to transfigure the lives of sinners.
I repeated the words of sorrow from Scripture until they became my vocabulary.
Bending low in humility can erase dividing lines of hostility.
What I was being accused of is not reflective of the type of person I want to be.
May we show the world whose we are by our love for one another.
It’s a relationship that is beautifully flawed, continually worked on, and sealed in sacrifice.
To rise out of a defeated and self-loathing place, it also took the tender, tenacious voice of a She to remind me of a grace that says to my limp, ‘Rise and walk.’
If we really want to offer healing to this cracked-up world, our stories must do as Jesus’s did: tell the whole truth about this human existence.
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.
Adoration allows me to bring all of me—sighing, tears, frustrations, and anger—to Him and His Word and hope that I won’t walk away the same.
Imagination has the power to cultivate empathy when we can picture ourselves inside someone else’s story or situation.
Even as I write this, my heart is stirred with deep gratitude. I am thankful for the men and women who will stand and protect us, and our country – no matter the personal cost to them.
Each of us needs to hear the same message about our bodies, but for different reasons.