I’ve recently read a few books which have spoken about the practice of Sabbath. The first book, Garden City, by John Mark Comer, was entirely devoted to the roles of work and rest in our lives. The second book, The Emotionally Healthy Leader, by Peter Scazzero, spoke about many internal and external facets of beingContinue reading “Sabbath: Worship and Rest”
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Being Used By God
I wonder if sometimes being stuck isn’t just a symptom of living…for ordinary use, but feeling the call on the inside that we were meant for more.
Emotion Versus Foundation
Locker Room Pep Talks If you’ve ever played a sport or watched a sports movie, you’ve seen the locker room pep talk. The coach riles the team up, gives them an encouraging speech, then they go out and win the game! That’s how it works, right? I had two experiences of the locker room pepContinue reading “Emotion Versus Foundation”
Is Self Love scriptural?
Be okay with not being at the finish line, but don’t stop running toward it. Don’t beat yourself up for not being perfect, but don’t accept the lie that you can’t or shouldn’t be better either.
You can’t love God without loving your neighbor
Something that sets Christianity apart, especially in the historical context where it emerged, is its insistence that our relationship with God is not just acted out by religious ritual, but that it’s actually acted out by how we live in relation to the people around us. The inadequacy of ritual sacrifice as a proof forContinue reading “You can’t love God without loving your neighbor”
Self-Control
Last week, I had the opportunity to work at a church camp for high schoolers. One of my close friends is the youth pastor of one of the youth groups that was present, and on the last night of camp he asked me to come to the cabin with his boys and hang out. ItContinue reading “Self-Control”
A Choice: Making the world more like Heaven
Have you ever been having a really bad day – maybe work is stressing you out or you just lost a loved one or perhaps you just forgot to grab your cup of coffee on the way out the door – and then somebody seems to go out of their way to make it evenContinue reading “A Choice: Making the world more like Heaven”
Love Your Enemies
I’m going to be honest for a moment and disclose a little secret about myself: I have a tendency to allow myself to be drawn into debates, especially on social media. Okay, if you know me well, maybe this isn’t much of a secret. When I see somebody say something that I fundamentally disagree with,Continue reading “Love Your Enemies”
Am I Good Enough?
Have you ever looked at yourself and thought, “I should be better than this”? I have. And, to be honest, I’m often right. We know ourselves really well. We know where we fall short. We know when we are too busy to do the things that really matter, but then we look back at theContinue reading “Am I Good Enough?”
Goodness, Wisdom, and Love
Did you know that every color we see finds its source in the same place? Each individual color is a result of white light — the light we get from the sun, which contains the entire light spectrum — hitting an object and some specific wavelength of the light spectrum bouncing off. Every different colorContinue reading “Goodness, Wisdom, and Love”
The Endeavor 