Do you know what Jesus did for a friend who was about to betray him?
Jesus’s acceptance and love is often way outside our comfort zone. How far are we willing to go?
Jesus understood: people can’t be something they don’t know how to be. What was his solution?
That is the funny thing about the end: it is really the beginning.
How nice it would be to have someone lead the way and protect you as you follow.
Are you a “serve behind the scenes” or “stand in front” type of person? Are you a “I want to be noticed and thanked” or a “just happy to do what I can” type of person?
When we take our prayers to God, we can be assured God is going to read between the lines and give us what we really need.
We all know of roads difficult to travel. Faith assures us there is strength to be gained on such roads.
Our hearts have the potential to be the roads that others travel on in order to get to Zion.
Finding a home, a true place of belonging, is something I believe we all crave. Just one day this week, let’s invite someone to church and show them they belong.
Do we have to wait till death to be in the courts of the Lord? What does it look like to invite the Lord into our dwelling place?
We were created to live within limits. They keep us healthy and safe. They also help us thrive.
“We love hurting people.”
There once was a box that was thought to house the presence of God.
Jesus is there, in the world, all around us; we just need a little help identifying him from time to time. Do you need that same help?
When I was a kid, I always wanted to hear from God, and I thought that God presented themselves in dramatic ways, such as the earthquake or fire in 1 Kings 19. It’s only been since I’ve gotten older that I know, often times, God shows up in the quiet moments when we are most vulnerable… like a friend. In order to hear someone whispering, we have to be close to them. So how do we get ourselves close to God so we can hear the whisper?
Some of us get Santa Claus mixed up with Jesus. You better do good, because Jesus is always watching you!
While I was in college, I attended the wedding of one of my wife’s cousins. That side of the Lewis family are Catholics, so this was a Catholic wedding—a new experience for me—held on a Saturday. Towards the end of the ceremony, after communion, the priest informed everyone that they had fulfilled their obligation to attend mass and were excused from church the following morning.
Is that what church is to so many people? An obligation?
“Resistance to tyranny becomes the Christian and social duty of each individual.” – John Hancock
If we always see Jesus painted as a blonde-haired, white dude with blue eyes, we white Americans are going to unconsciously place him into “our” categories, all the while leaving out the rest of the world.