A Christian who has attempted to avoid, smooth out, or hide from every imperfection in their life becomes removed and isolated, divorced from the purpose of their being. [Click title to read more.]
Tag: spirituality
Stop Assuming Someone Else Will Do It
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.]
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.]
The Honest Believer Is A Precious Gift
The Christian life is good. It is full of blessings and joy, and it is the privilege of walking alongside God and speaking to Him as a friend. It is also full, at times, of unanswered questions, hurts that seem as though they might not heal, bewildering events, and circumstances that we have no idea how to plan for. Bless the believers who acknowledge this. [Click title to read more.]
The Art of Holding Back
Many believers see themselves as truth-tellers, and well we should. The Bible demands that we speak in truth and in honesty and authenticity at all times, concealing nothing and without dissembling; that is, by the way, precisely why it's wrong for me to tell those white lies. But many believers also believe that truth-telling means "saying how you feel about everything at all times, no matter how hurtful or cruel, whether asked or unasked." And that is not what Biblical truth-telling is. [Click title to read more.]
Twitchy Christianity
The response of the believer in the circumstance is a calm and steely-eyed one. Aware that God does not change, the believer accepts even the catastrophic with a calm certainty. [Click title to read more.]
Empathy Is Not A Dirty Word
When we engage in empathy we get closer to a real understanding of someone; we get a peek into who they are and what their soul is like. And it is from that beginning that we can build a relationship with someone, and also - perhaps most importantly - understand how it is that we can serve them and show them the love of Christ. [Click title to read more.]
In A Trying Time
In this fractured moment in history, God is waiting, willing, wanting to use His church. But His church must let itself be used. [Click title to read more.]
Failing Before God
In our not-perfection, in our inability to display any real righteousness but what we have in Christ, the effort that we make out of love for God becomes the greatest gift that we can give Him. [Click title to read more.]
