If you know there is something standing between you and your ability to love and serve someone, and it's in your power to get rid of it, you should. [Click title to read more.]
Tag: outreach
Five Things You Can Do For Easter (Besides Inviting People To The Easter Service)
There are many ways to express Easter joy in love and service. Here are a handful. [Click title to read more.]
Caring for Creation
Caring for God's creation can be a tremendous act of love and service. [Click title to read more.]
Sometimes, Ministry Is Simply Doing What You Already Do…And Doing It Well
All too often, our definitions of "ministry" mostly involve either teaching or discipling people, or volunteering to do extra activities for those in need of help or services. We view ministry, in other words, as an elective activity of some sort that we pick up. But ministry can be so much more. [Click title to read more.]
Think Of The Lonely This Holiday Season
We assume that people are fine, and so we never really know if they're longing for connection over the holidays. [Click title to read more.]
You Are God’s Object Lesson
Sometimes, our well-intentioned explanations sound like gibberish. That's why living the Gospel is so important. [Click title to read more.]
How We Define Kindness
Christian kindness isn't just "being nice." Anybody can be nice. [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.]
The Difference Between Passive and Pushy
It's possible to find a happy medium between being an obnoxiously pushy Christian and an ineffective, passive one who never reaches out. [Click title to read more.]
Simple, Unforced Outreach
Most people crave an "entry point" when they arrive at a church they've never attended - and we can be that for them. [Click title to read more.]
Samaritan's Song 