To my shame, I realize that "someone else will do it" is one of my most common excuses for avoiding God's work - or, more explicitly, for avoiding the work that I'm least interested in or least motivated to do. [Click title to read more.]
Category: spirituality
Giving Up The Fight Against Pain and Discomfort
It's not necessarily wrong to avoid pain, and to do what we can to minimize the pain, discomfort, fear, or grief in our lives. But a lot of us need to get more comfortable with being uncomfortable. [Click title to read more.]
Monday Morning: Making Your Spiritual Practices Work Better When Your Hair Is On Fire
I don't want God to be a chore, or one more thing that I have to do for the day. Here are five things I've started doing to make my Monday spiritual practices a little more bearable. [Click title to read more.]
What I Learned From Being Quiet
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.]
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.]
