Developing a sense of community is tough. Meeting new people. Branching out of your comfort zone. Silence. Awkwardness.
There are a few simple things that help people bond:
• Eat together
• Laugh together.
• Pray together.
• Serve together.
Communities that do these things are unbelievably strong. They don’t easily break. They forgive one [...]
These past few weeks, we’ve been overwhelmed by coverage of the earthquake recovery in Haiti.
Many of us don’t know what an appropriate response looks like. We can’t cut through the clutter of the crumbling buildings and the number of dead.
Don’t let it overwhelm you. It’s more overwhelming to them.
Do something now. Doesn’t [...]
Kate is in the fight of her life.
Her story is like many others around the world. It is merely one example of the pain of cancer. One life. A very real story. The story of a girl fighting with all of her strength. A family waiting anxiously for any [...]
Over the past six months, I have been discovering/facing up to who I am more than any period in my life. I’ve been on mountaintops and in valleys. I’ve been in places with an abundance of light and places where darkness took over and light was absent.
There comes a moment (or [...]
This week’s great conversations:
•Ben Arment on being a sponge
•Perry Noble on Kissing a Toilet
•Anne Jackson Shady motels and Prostitutes
•Craig Groeschel on doing the small things
•John Piper is about to cause a stir. Good!
•Steven Furtick on Moving Deep Quickly
•Bil Cornelius on obedience and honesty… very good!
•Pete Briscoe on his struggle with being the best… best [...]
sometimes there is simply too much to pray about …. than to blog and act like I have it all together.
Help me pray for a few friends:
- Cesalee and her husband who have recently lost a son who was a year and a half old. Pray for her family surrounding this awful and destructive [...]
God is in control… i learn more and more.
the other day, I felt pulled to pray for an old friend. One that I hadn’t heard from or talked to in a while. In our years of friendship, since second grade, I have never felt that he was out of my life. [...]
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