I want to encourage us with the conviction that we as ministers, theologians, and Christian leaders have something important to add to the conversation.
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I want to encourage us with the conviction that we as ministers, theologians, and Christian leaders have something important to add to the conversation.
As we wean ourselves off the holiday season, there is a part of me that wonders what it would be like to embody year-round the excitement of the season that celebrates the birth of Jesus.
Our true identity is not found in a man, or in their roles, titles, jobs, beauty, intelligence, accomplishments, or children. True identity is found in Jesus Christ. Period.
I love talking with people who are genuinely passionate about an art form. The comments and energy that surface come from a place deeper than productivity or even functionality.
As the created world hosts humanity, we have much to learn from the soil, from the seeds. Stretching toward the light, cultivated hearts propagate God’s mission.
Inclusion means that the congregation embraces the inherent value in all voices and seeks to make them an active part of the whole.
It makes no sense that we would be called out of our life of wrath by an act of wrath.
Beauty might be in the eye of the beholder, but that eye seems inconsistent in its demands for meeting expectations of beauty.
There exists a group of people who feel like they are not being heard. Not being listened to. Not being welcomed into the kingdom of God in the way God intended.
Our heritage focuses on right thinking and purposeful doing, often without acknowledging emotion.
We must be careful about moving from “anyone can preach” to “it doesn’t matter who is in the pulpit.”
Jesus prays for us to achieve unity in our diversity so that the world will know the unconditional love of God and believe.
I invite you to share in some of the lessons I have learned from this man who in many ways has been a spiritual giant in my life.
Treating children as pilgrims on a spiritual journey requires us to view children for what they are: God's image bearers.
Dear one, that star, burning far in the distance, reminds me of you. I knew you would be here, so I modeled its interstellar dance after your fire and passion.