Christian kindness isn't just "being nice." Anybody can be nice. [Click title to read more.]
Tag: Christianity
Five Ways To Be The People You Love To Be Around
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.]
Stop Making Failure Easy
One of the best things we can do is to get out of our own way. [Click title to read more.]
Book Review: Tish Harrison Warren’s The Liturgy Of The Ordinary
A review of Tish Harrison Warren's The Liturgy of the Ordinary. [Click title to read more.]
Paying Attention To God (And Your Own Mind)
We talk a lot about hearing God and paying attention to Him, but we have a habit of then immediately turning on every device and engaging in every activity within reach, often with mindless fervor. No wonder we can't hear anything! [Click title to read more.]
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.]
On “Thoughts And Prayers”
The truth is that the phrase "thoughts and prayers," or the offhanded promise "I'm praying for you," can be empty. It can be performative. It can be meaningless. And before believers utter it - whether in text, on Twitter, in person, or anywhere else - we'd do well to ask ourselves a few questions and to think about what it is we're really saying. [Click title to read more.]
Book Review: Melanie Shankle’s Church Of The Small Things
A review of Melanie Shankle's Church of the Small Things. [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.]
Samaritan's Song 