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Half-Step

Happy New Year! Let’s keep three words in front of us this year, “Loving like Jesus.” Loving like Jesus… as I read and watch the news is as timely as ever. Jesus loves by telling stories that make us free. He loves by being humbly bold, by breaking bread with unusual...

Christmas is…

At the center, Christmas is little. It’s quiet, like the quiet of a snowfall, before the sledding and snowball fights. Christmas is humble. Hope wrapped in rags. Materially modest but spiritually shimmering. Christmas assumes nothing. Christmas offers everything....
Christmas Is…

Christmas Is…

At the center, Christmas is little. It’s quiet, like the quiet of a snowfall, before the sledding and snowball fights. Christmas is humble. Hope wrapped in rags. Materially modest but spiritually shimmering. Christmas assumes nothing. Christmas offers everything....

No. 2: Be Curious

To love like Jesus, we’re going to have to: “Be curious.” John left his congregation because he was curious about God. People were curious about John’s preaching, so they joined him at the river. Some folks were only curious about John’s clothes and food. Life without...
No. 2: Be Curious

No. 2: Be Curious

To love like Jesus, we’re going to have to: “Be curious.” John left his congregation because he was curious about God. People were curious about John’s preaching, so they joined him at the river. Some folks were only curious about John’s clothes and food. Life without...

No. 1

To love like Jesus, we’re going to have to: “Tell our real stories.” Paul wrote, “God is faithful…” He had an encounter with God, so logic-defying he spent the rest of his life referring to it. Trying to live it. Your real story is no less wonderful. Tell your...
No. 1

No. 1

To love like Jesus, we’re going to have to: “Tell our real stories.” Paul wrote, “God is faithful…” He had an encounter with God, so logic-defying he spent the rest of his life referring to it. Trying to live it. Your real story is no less wonderful. Tell your...

Bounty

Today many will sit at tables overflowing with food. At these tables will be family and friends, in-laws and outlaws, maybe even a few strangers. Beginning with the Pilgrims, this meal was about a death-defying celebration of life. You know the story, European...
Bounty

Bounty

Today many will sit at tables overflowing with food. At these tables will be family and friends, in-laws and outlaws, maybe even a few strangers. Beginning with the Pilgrims, this meal was about a death-defying celebration of life. You know the story, European...

Proximate

“How might we challenge ourselves to love like Jesus in the days and months ahead? Two words, be proximate. Individually and collectively. That was Bryan Stevenson’s challenge to us some months ago. And that is what God did two millennia ago and ever since. Draw...