I’m absolutely convinced that nothing—nothing living or dead, angelic or demonic, today or tomorrow, high or low, thinkable or unthinkable—absolutely nothing can get between us and God’s love because of the way that Jesus our Master has embraced us. — Romans 8:39, MSG ::: Happily linking up today …
Instead
Last week, I went to Dallas, where I met with some of The High Calling team. I stayed in a swanky hotel and ate delicious food, and I sat on the rooftop near a pool. We had a good time, and we accomplished important work. Later that week, I went to a different hotel to meet with a different …
For When We Want to Acronym-ize the World
...Then, in my head, I started doing the whole pharisee thing. Remember that story? The one where the pharisee and the tax collector went to pray and the pharisee got all high and mighty, saying, "Thank you, God, for not making me like him," (meaning, of course, like the tax collector). I sat there …
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Reclaiming Sabbath Keeping
When I was ten years old, my family moved into a neighborhood with a Jewish synagogue two blocks from our house. Each week, on Saturday, our streets filled with cars and those cars carried faithful, orthodox Jewish worshipers who drove to our neighborhood so they could walk to worship. It was …
Give Me Grace
Now God has us where he wants us, with all the time in this world and the next to shower grace and kindness upon us in Christ Jesus. Saving is all his idea, and all his work. All we do is trust him enough to let him do it. It’s God’s gift from start to finish! We don’t play the major role. If we …
Sunday
When it comes right down to it, that verse sums up my prayers for The Sunday Community. If you've found something here that has helped to make God more accessible to you, that's more than incredible. God is so very close to us, and he reveals himself in so many ways. One of the ways God opens the …