These guidelines won't turn you into an extrovert who enjoys socializing. But they will help you to become an enjoyable person to be around: someone who cares, someone who is engaged, someone who is authentically open to listening and serving. [Click title to read more.]
Tag: Christian growth
Empathy After The Fact
If we only ever feel empathy after encountering something personally or through someone near to us, we have a problem. [Click title to read more.]
Life Lessons From Bird Photography
Photographing birds (or at least trying) teaches me a lot about my Christian walk. [Click title to read more.]
Eight Things You Should Do Today
Eight ways to make your day, and your mindset, a little better. [Click title to read more.]
More To Learn
We have a long, long way to go. And that's a great thing. [Click title to read more.]
The Complex Nature of Gratitude
Gratitude, as I see it, is about accepting whatever we are given - good, bad, and ugly - with the joy that comes of understanding of God's true nature. [Click title to read more.]
Maintenance Prevents Decay
A few shared experiences and some good feelings aren't enough to keep a friendship, or any kind of relationship, going through neglect and disinterest. [Click title to read more.]
A Few Good Posts
I'm taking a break from blogging for ten days. So have ten good posts, instead. [Click title to read more.]
Approaching Revelation With A Different Perspective
I've always had a vexed relationship with Revelation, and I think most of the church does. Over the centuries believers have treated this book of the Bible as a decoder ring for current events, but in reality, it is worth a lot more than that and we should approach it as more than that. [Click title to read more.]
Let’s Stop Pretending Choices Only Matter For Adolescents
Among Christians, there's a sense that we've "made it" if we head into our adult years with our faith and our lives mostly in one piece. Except that isn't really the case. [Click title to read more.]
Samaritan's Song 