Packing up the dreams God planted ...
Productive work and mutually dependent, complementary relationships with God and each other are what we were made for. No good comes of shortcutting those things in pursuit of our individual...
Brett Smith admits, "Having served full time in churches for thirteen years, I finally realized I didn’t fit. I stopped job searching and started soul-searching...I determined I would stay in full...
We all receive many invitations in our lives, but one invitation that arrived in our mailbox stands out from all the rest. My wife and I were invited to The White House for...
We often measure threshold moments in terms of before and after: the births, weddings, and deaths in our awareness all inhabit similarly...
The stories of the men who are incarcerated at the Crowley, CO, Correctional Facility are many. Locked behind bars for crimes against...
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As Amy Butler stood in the checkout line at the grocery store on a Saturday morning, an unexpectedly touching exchange took place between the checker and a customer. The two couldn't have looked...
Psalm 68 celebrates God’s care for Israel. It does so with a wide variety of images, many of which highlight God’s power and justice in stirring and even disturbing ways (68:2, 21-23). Yet Psalm 68...
"Our job is to help people make sense of the situation and put their lives back together." Claims adjuster Dan Reed describes his efforts to bring order out of chaos.
In the course of one remarkable week, Angela Raub left a well-paying job in the hospitality industry to lead financial developent for...
As we have seen in recent reflections, one way we live out our calling as God's people is by being zealous to...
“We can’t support that,” the campus ministry leader informed us. “Not unless you include a tract or share the gospel in some way.”
As we saw in yesterday's reflection, if we are to live out our divine calling, then we will "make every effort to...
I’m pretty sure my heels left ruts in the red clay when my husband’s transfer pulled us from the Georgia pines to...
God has called us to be his people, his beloved children. He has also called us to participate in his creative, redemptive...
"In my experience, no one is always happy, excited, or hopeful. We may not always see progress. At times we see things slipping backwards," writes Jack Davis. In a Linked2Leadership blog post about...
Design Taxi is the latest site to note that Walt Disney broke brainstorming into three sessions (dreamer, realist, spoiler) in order to...
I wonder if Adam Hamilton turns his socks right-side out before he puts them in the dirty clothes hamper. Probably not. After...
To be honest, we begin our relationship with God because of what's in it for us personally. We recognize that we need...
