Our house is quiet. Sometimes it's a lonely "waiting for adoption" sort of quiet, but most of the time it's a soothing quiet. And I soak it up. Just the other day, I spent nearly four hours in consecutive silence. It was heart-binding. It was immense. It was...
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don’t let them tame you.
There's this conviction that's drilling deep down within me. And it's slow. But it's steady. And it just sinks and settles. And this conviction is that life is a gift—an opportunity. I'm not talking about a wimpish and half-hearted fling-the-dart-towards-the-target...
and it wasn’t even a “Christian” concert.
A few years ago, I led worship on a retreat for a room full of seminary wives and students. Even though we were from all over the world, we had Jesus in common. We also had a need for rest and refreshment. My Northern Irish friend shipped her mom across the pond as...
where did the transcendence go?
On Thursday nights, our core team gathers to eat and plan and pray and dream about launching a second campus of our congregation. It's the one meeting of my week that I'm not responsible for—the one church meeting that I can just attend. And I get to attend as the...
why i wear black to church
Ours is a t-shirt and flip-flops sort of church, so I can get away with...
now go sit with someone…
On Guilt: "It is about as hard to absolve yourself of your own guilt as it is...
artful markings
We all have mundane moments. You know, the ones that are boring and barely...
a look back: the top 11 from 2011
It's been an incredible year! We officially moved to a multi-blogger format....
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