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What Faithfulness Looks Like When Fear is in the Air – Part Two
Read part one of this post by clicking here. There are moments when we feel pressure to prove something. To clarify a position. To say the right words. To demonstrate relevance. But Scripture tells a different story. It tells us to remember. This is one of those moments. Fear has a way of exposing what we rely on. It reveals how…
Neighborhood Chaplaincy Blog The great theologian and philosopher Dallas Willard once wrote: We were built to count, as water is made to run downhill. We are placed in a specific context to count in ways no one else does. That is our destiny. God has placed you in a specific context – a family, a…
Reflection I’m grieved, and I also feel a responsibility to speak from proximity. Some of the people I call friends have walked the refugee and asylum journey firsthand. I’ve sat with those who were forced from their homes—not because they wanted to leave, but because staying was no longer possible. I’ve watched people fight for dignity while carrying grief, hope, and exhaustion all at once. Survival was…
Let it Be to Us According to Your Word
Today, our pastor asked staff a question: What part of the Advent season are you carrying with you into the year ahead? This Advent, I’ve been sitting with Mary (Luke 1:26–38), a young woman standing at a crossroads she did not choose. I’ve been pondering her response to the angel and the circumstances she found…
When I moved to a Southeast Texas town to pastor a small church, I didn’t realize how difficult it would be to reach young adults. The church was primarily made up of senior adults, it wasn’t in an attractive building or part of town, and our worship style was outdated. These are all elements that…
As we continue to learn more about Flourishing Together, it’s important to remember the natural synthesis between the domains. Flourishing Domains Flourishing is a relative state of “holistic health” where an individual has an overall sense of wellbeing. For study and understanding, it’s helpful to distinguish between the domains. In actual living, they’re profoundly interconnected.…
The church has always been most alive when it remembers that the gospel belongs to every people. From the beginning, the Spirit has pushed believers beyond their familiar worlds. The early church in Acts was born multiethnic, multi-lingual, and radically hospitable. That reality still calls to us today. Look around your own city. In Australia,…
The world is full of people who want to be popular influencers… shaping the opinions and purchases of their audience, largely through social media. Their impact is typically fad-driven and short-term with no accountability. What the world desperately needs are godly leaders… shaping the attitudes and behaviors of others, largely through personal interaction and positive…
I grew up in the Midwest, and I remember the first snow day when I was old enough to go shovel the drive. I layered up, put on some boots, and trudged outside to grabbed a snow shovel. In Texas, we don’t often shovel our driveways, but as a native Midwesterner, rest assured that even…