Offense is a peculiar thing in that, if you go about your day looking for it, you’ll almost always find it. In other words, if you’re looking to be offended, you’ll likely find something to be offended by. Our society is steeped in this issue. This same simple reasoning can be applied to many things, …
Category: Daily Encouragement
Remember to Look Up
There is something about adulthood and the rhythms of everyday life that conditions us to constantly have our gaze fixed at eye level and falsely believe that it is somehow productive. The world calls this eye-level, self-obsession “wisdom.” I remember about seven years ago, when I was first married and working a job that was …
Speak for the Voiceless; Seek Justice for the Oppressed
“Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves; ensure justice for those being crushed. Yes, speak up for the poor and helpless, and see that they get justice.”Proverbs 31:8-9 NLT Stand in the gap, Church. If our voices are silent, how then can the love of Christ be in us? Who, then, can the …
Meditations of the Cross: Suffering
“For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.”2 Corinthians 5:21 ESV Happy Good Friday, everyone! The Bible teaches us that the sinless One (Jesus Christ) became sin (or a sin offering) in our stead so that the punishment rightly …
Physical Isolation Does Not Have to Mean Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Isolation
*Short post of encouragement and re-post from Instagram: During these difficult days, reach out if you need help. Reach out to others before you need help. And check on your friends, loved ones, and people in your circles regularly. We can’t afford to have passive accountability to one another at this time. We have to …
Healthy Goal Setting for 2020
1. Make your goals measurable. 2. Make your goals attainable. 3. Be kind to yourself in how and why you set them. Don’t let your goals and resolutions for the new year be derailed by being overly ambitious, vague and immeasurable, or unkind to yourself in the place in your heart that they come from. …
Agreement Is Not a Prerequisite for Kindness
In our world full of differences—race and ethnicity, political parties, various views on sexuality and identity, heated debates about climate change (pun intended), differing theology and denominationalism, pop culture, etc.—it can be so easy to bracket ourselves into pockets of people with whom we agree, and staunchly separate ourselves from those with whom we disagree. …
Be Faithful with Today
Be faithful with today. It’s so easy to be overwhelmed by our to-do lists: what to do now, what to do later, what to add, and what to remove. After years of existing in a state of always spiritually striving for what’s next, God, the kind and tender Father that He is, has brought me …