Even in churches where believers and staff consider mental illness to be a valid issue worthy of attention, I think there's still a lot of confusion and awkwardness surrounding how we minister to that and to those people in the middle of it. Here are a few tips. [Click title to read more.]
Tag: Christian living
Fellowship Is What Happens – Or Should Happen – In Times Of Church Conflict And Disagreement
I fear that, over time, the church has lost its grasp of what fellowship actually is. We've reduced it to a positive, feel-good form of engagement: bonding at a Bible study, chatting over chips and dips, believers going out in kayaks together. And that's surely a part of fellowship, but not the entirety of it. Fellowship is what ought to happen - what needs to happen - at these crisis points when egregious wrongs have been committed and everyone is (justifiably!) angry and hurt. [Click title to read more.]
Your Discomfort With Your Spiritual Walk Is A Hopeful Sign
I realized recently that my discomfort with my own spiritual progress is a promising sign. And so is yours. [Click title to read more.]
Thank God For The Closed Doors
Our response to closed doors in our lives gives a lot away about what we prioritize. It's time to change the way we think about them. [Click title to read more.]
Short-Sightedness Can Ruin You
What strikes me the most reading the stories of the Bible's vow-breakers is that our arrogance often goes much deeper than we think: we really do believe we know ourselves better than God does. [Click title to read more.]
Shibboleths and Gatekeepers
The only word necessary to cross the great ford that separates us from God is the name of Christ, and anyone can say it. May God spare us from becoming self-anointed gatekeepers over minor and insignificant issues. [Click title to read more.]
The Mystery of Mysteries
One look at the nightmarish scrawl that humanity has left on its history will leave you stunned by the fact that God could love any of us at all. [Click title to read more.]
Book Review: What’s So Amazing About Grace? By Philip Yancey
A review of Philip Yancey's (old!) book What's So Amazing About Grace? [Click title to read more.]
Don’t Self-Censor Your Prayers
Somehow, over the years, I started self-censoring my prayers. If you're in a prayer rut, you might be doing the same thing. [Click title to read more.]
Be Ready For The Change That Will Alter Your Landscape
God is the constant in the topography of our shifting world. When the landmarks disappear, when what we know has been rendered foreign to us, He will remain the same. [Click title to read more.]
Samaritan's Song 