Over the next few months, I'll be contributing two reflections each month to a new-to-me online community called Life for Leaders. Life for Leaders is an online project of the Max De Pree Center for Leaders and Fuller Theological Seminary. I'm honored to have been invited to write for this …
How to Make a Difference In the World Right Now
Surrendering our lives to Jesus Christ means owning up to the deep, deep needs in our world. God is truly counting on us to be his hands and feet. But, in the face of terrorism, racism, marital infidelity, sex trafficking, addiction, mental illness, and questions about climate change (just to …
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A Prayer for the Girlfriends Among Us
This is a prayer for the girlfriends among us, Lord. You knew we'd need each other and that we would rock the whole girlfriend thing. So, thank You for the friends who have our back and rub our feet and Vox or text at just the right time with just the right words. You knew we'd thrive with the …
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The Sacred Work of an Honest Apology
On June 26, 2015, George Robertson, senior pastor at First Presbyterian Church in Augusta, Georgia, wrote an essay entitled, “We, and Our Fathers, Have Sinned.” The article was reprinted on August 3, 2015, at the Gospel Coalition. Here’s an excerpt: As white members and leaders of evangelical …
The Hard Work of Reconciliation
You don’t need Sunday school flannel-board illustrations of the prodigal son to know how the parable unfolds. It’s a story as old as time itself. A precocious child asks his father for an early inheritance. The father obliges, and the son tromps off with the money. The son doesn’t call. He …
Staying Focused, Even When We Disagree
My friend Kristi Atkinson once wrote an article offering "Five Prompts for Praying the News." In that article, the first prompt Kristi suggested, when engaging with news that elicits a strong reaction, is to offer our reaction to God. In other words, when we read or hear a story on the news that …
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