Life can stagger you like that sometimes. We live in a world of lightning strikes, both literal and relational, intentional and random.
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Life can stagger you like that sometimes. We live in a world of lightning strikes, both literal and relational, intentional and random.
Rain and storms will beat against our house. But will our house stand firm? This depends on what work we have done previously to prepare.
As we prepare for our first ElderLink of 2022, we wanted to whet your appetite for our time together. We recently sat down for virtual conversations with our speakers and host.
In order to imagine ourselves in difference-making positions, we all need models in place, models who look like we do and who don’t all look like each other.
Here it is: the obstacle that pushes the disciples’ faith too far. The obstacle that ushers in helplessness and panic.
Could it be that the real question is not, “Who is this that even the wind and sea obey him?” but rather, “Who is this who sleeps through storms?”
Jesus’s disciples, when faced with the imminent possibility of death, ask the question of the ages when they ask, “Do you not care that we are perishing?”
Fear is not the most reliable of counselors. Yet in the face of darkness we all have to come to the terrible truth that monsters are real.
There is no doubt in my mind that everything done that day was a reflection of God pushing us out of fear and into productivity and resilience.
When the storm hits the disciples’ boat as it crosses the Sea of Galilee, Jesus’s apathy is noted. Could there be anything more apathetic than sleeping?
Tornado season has come to us again, and the forecast for the week calls for more severe weather