In the process of fasting from certain types of speech, I'm actually discovering more about how to speak: to be direct and kind, to think about why I'm saying what I'm saying, to make my words matter more when they come out. [Click title to read more.]
Category: spirituality
What It Looks Like To Forget God
Yes, in a world that has forgotten God, sin will reign. And in a world that has forgotten God, love will be dead, too - along with mercy, and compassion, and forgiveness. [Click title to read more.]
Remaining Unruffled
All too often, I monitor what's going on around me and I allow it to dictate my response, how I'm thinking or feeling, or what I decide to do. [Click title to read more.]
Watching Your Mouth
Simple honesty is best, the Bible counsels, but beware of your own limitations. Watch what you say, and don't you dare utter anything that you don't expect to be held accountable for.[Click title to read more.]
Why Fellowship Is Valuable When It Works
At its best, and as an ideal, Christian fellowship is (or should be) a place where we can drop pretenses, get comfortable, stretch our toes, look for and find and provide support, and enjoy the feeling of being somewhere that we're understood, loved, and supported. It's a community where the love of God is, at least theoretically, being made manifest constantly in surprising and wonderful ways. [Click title to read more.]
The Christian’s Only Necessary Christmas To-Do List
Here is my list of five absolutely necessary things I need to do over the holidays to make sure that my heart is where it needs to be. [Click title to read more.]
Italian Nativities Changed The Way I Think of Christmas
As much as we attempt to sanctify it and memorialize it and put it on a pedestal, everything about the night of Christ's birth was as much human as holy. [Click title to read more.]
The Art of Holding Back
Many believers see themselves as truth-tellers, and well we should. The Bible demands that we speak in truth and in honesty and authenticity at all times, concealing nothing and without dissembling; that is, by the way, precisely why it's wrong for me to tell those white lies. But many believers also believe that truth-telling means "saying how you feel about everything at all times, no matter how hurtful or cruel, whether asked or unasked." And that is not what Biblical truth-telling is. [Click title to read more.]
He Cares For You
I wrote this post last week, in the middle of my vacation, due to an unexpected turn of events that occurred. I didn't post it at the time for various reasons, but I saved it to post when I returned in hopes that it would encourage someone who needed it. [Click title to read more.]
Make The Small Sacrifices
Sometimes as believers we think of Jesus' sacrifice and it's so easy to become overwhelmed because it was so big. And it was. But on our end? We can start with little things. [Click title to read more.]
Samaritan's Song 