God also knows all of our possibilities and strengths and what we have the capacity to do. More than we do, God has the vision of who exactly we are meant to be, what we might be like when we're everything He created us for. [Click title to read more.]
Category: Christian living
Not All Christians Smile
It's easy for us to reflect our own assumptions, ideas, and personalities onto Christianity as a whole and onto other believers, too. It's simple, in other words, for us to assume that other believers do or should act just like us because they love the same God we do and are blessed in the same way as we are. [Click title to read more.]
Why I Am Trying To Be Grateful For Winter
I suspect that God wants to cultivate gratitude in us not just because He likes being thanked - though He does - but also because gratitude in all circumstances gets us in the practice of hammering away at our natural inclinations and habits. [Click title to read more.]
A Blessing For The New Year
May you never have enough of God, and may your desire for more be your glory. [Click title to read more.]
This New Year, Vow To Be Your Brother’s Keeper
A strong and unmistakable mandate of the Christian ethos - one of Christianity's defining characteristics - is that we are to love and care both for those who love us, and for those who do not. We are heart-obligated to the community around us. [Click title to read more.]
Why Church Matters
Regardless of what we criticize or change, Christmas Eve reminded me of two things: that church is simple, and that church is necessary. [Click title to read more.]
Merry Christmases
Despite what television tells us, Christmas needn't look any one particular way. The only thing that Christmases need share is a recognition of the glory in Luke 2:14, the miracle about which angels sang. [Click title to read more.]
Ten Things You Must Do Before Christmas
It's coming. Christmas, I mean. It's coming. For some of us - like me, who celebrate a week early or a week late with out-of-town friends and family - it's already arrived. Here, then, is a list of Super-Important Things You Absolutely Must Do Before Or By Christmas. [Click title to read more.]
Prayer As An Attitude
Prayer is not just an act which one commits at a certain time and a certain place. It is a way of life and of being: an attitude. To "pray without ceasing" requires attention and mindfulness--it requires seeing people, or moments that are passing by, and to recognize them right then as meaningful to God whether or not you feel they are meaningful to you. [Click title to read more.]
Weekly Round-Up
Let's catch up, pray, and rest together. [Click title to read more.]
Samaritan's Song 