Don’t Be Afraid of Collateral Kindness

Let us not start policing our kindness, or being afraid that someone undeserving might receive it if we aim it in the wrong direction. [Click title to read more.]

Twitchy Christianity

The response of the believer in the circumstance is a calm and steely-eyed one. Aware that God does not change, the believer accepts even the catastrophic with a calm certainty. [Click title to read more.]

Book Review: Anne Graham Lotz’s Wounded By God’s People

A review of Anne Graham Lotz' "Wounded By God's People." [Click title to read more.]

Thank You.

Thanks for dropping by my blog when you do. [Click title to read more.]

Blessed Be The Familiar, The Ordinary, and the Unremarkable

What you do might seem ordinary to you, and yet be remarkable to others. God wants to use the familiar in your life. [Click title to read more.]

This Holiday Season, You Have A Chance To Redefine Your Giving

May I suggest that you redefine your giving this year? Find a person, a family, a relationship that you can serve yourself, not just with material goods. Find a service that you can provide, yourself, to some people who might benefit from it. Get into the emotional and spiritual muck of serving, as well as the financial aspect. [Click title to read more.]

Empathy Is Not A Dirty Word

When we engage in empathy we get closer to a real understanding of someone; we get a peek into who they are and what their soul is like. And it is from that beginning that we can build a relationship with someone, and also - perhaps most importantly - understand how it is that we can serve them and show them the love of Christ. [Click title to read more.]

Be Open To Correction From Unexpected Places

In our Christian lives, we tend to develop hierarchies: hierarchies of age, of authority. The problem is that as we ascend those hierarchies, as we grow in power, in age, or in knowledge, we often tend to entrench ourselves in our positions and ideas. We assume we are almost always right - or, at the very least, righter than those "beneath" us. [Click title to read more.]

Book Review: Henri Nouwen’s The Return of the Prodigal Son

This is a review of Henri Nouwen's The Return of the Prodigal Son. [Click title to read more.]

In A Trying Time

In this fractured moment in history, God is waiting, willing, wanting to use His church. But His church must let itself be used. [Click title to read more.]