Our capacity to be with those in suffering without fixing or saving or advising or explaining is directly related to our capacity to be with our own suffering or the potential of our suffering and how we allow God to be with us in it.
Read More“Welcome with meekness the implanted word that has the power to save your souls.” James, chapter 1
Read MoreWhen we risk seeing the world through the lens of hospitality, we are all changed together. No one stays the same. There is no longer a distinction between the rescuer and the rescued, the host and the guest – we’re all sitting at the table.
Read MoreOn Pentecost, we don’t celebrate the birth of the institutional church or the start of a religion – we celebrate a God who draws a new box.
Read MoreWhat if God wants more for us than perfection? What if the authority, brilliance and efficacy of God is not around an idea of perfectly executed action but being in the mess with us, moving and flowing and responding with the movement of life?
Read MoreGod is born when we drink from the well of love and not of fear.
Read MoreWho do you want to be in this time? When you look back at this season of history, how will you have wanted to show up?
Read MoreThere are two movies out right now that to my mind are absolute perfection. I haven’t gone to see a movie twice in a movie theater since I became a parent 17 years ago, but this weekend I did a repeat of the movie...
Read MoreThe church buzzed with hope. The young family standing on the chancel was their justification and salvation. Their existence justified because this handsome man with a darling...
Read MoreSo, all week I’ve been hearing… “Wow, you’re speaking on addiction on Sunday. Good luck with that!” So, here we go…
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