There's a story in the gospels you might have heard before. You can find it in Matthew, Mark, and Luke, and it depicts a short exchange between Jesus and a "rich young...
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Yesterday I tweeted something that got a surprising amount of traction. Ever since, my brain has continued to chew on it, and I wanted to follow up with some additional thoughts. This was the...
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I hate to admit this, but in the last month I have dived deep into Hallmark Christmas movies. It's pretty bad, y'all. I have probably watched each one twice, and the movies are not...
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All day long, I have felt a bit paralyzed by the news coming out of Aleppo. The scale of the evil somehow keeps growing, and I confess I am tempted to despair....
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I don't have to tell you tomorrow is a big day. We all feel it. We've felt it. It's been an ugly election season that keeps getting uglier. It's been gross, made...
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I'm taking a break this week from my series on love, to tell you a short story. A number of years ago, Ike and I endured a hard season of our...
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"Love is kind." 1 Corinthians 13:4 Love is a funny thing. We tend to know it when we see it, but it's also a bit like jello, tough to pin to the...
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Last week one of my tweets hit a nerve, in the very best way: Sometimes I think "God is love" gets taken to mean "love is god." But the difference between...
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Last month my youngest son began day care, which means I now have two mornings entirely to myself. Each day, in those first moments after the front door shuts and a...
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I've been sitting on this post for several months. I first began to write it after a conversation with some friends from church. We were talking about our spiritual journeys, and mine...
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