Relapse and recovery (or, how to get back up when you fall)
Recovery is characterized by relapse. I wish someone had told me this a long time ago, before I lost patience with people who desperately need my patience. Relapse is what
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Has the Church lost its prophetic voice?
Sandra Richter, Craig Keener and others teach about the triad of leadership found in the Old Testament. Three distinct voices spoke into the Israelite community. The king was a civic
Rolling stops and resurrections
You know what a rolling stop is, right? It is what less responsible (or more distracted or in-a-hurry) drivers do when we get to an intersection. We sort of stop,
Sanctification is hell (or, a lesson on the vocabulary of freedom).
A couple of weeks ago, I stopped by Kroger on my way back from Atlanta on a Sunday afternoon. I’d been sharing with another church so someone else from our
Biblical … or superstitious? Which are you?
Consider how the following three numbers are related*: 2, 4, 8. What would you say is the likely relationship between these three numbers? Is there a pattern (hint: yes)? To confirm your guess,
How to sit with someone in their grave (or, How to surrender your sexuality to God)
A friend of a friend works with men who have gone through sexual trauma and in a conversation about how healing happens for them, he says, “These men cannot make
Act as if … (how to start up a stalled life)
“Growth is painful. Change is painful. But nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you don’t belong.” This was a line in an email from a greatly loved one
You’re not crazy (or, what it feels like to be a pastor)
You don’t want to be me. According to a series of New York Times articles* and a plethora of other studies** done on the topic, people like me are ticking
Take a little wine for your stomach (or, how to live well in a stressful world)
You definitely get the sense in Paul’s two letters to Timothy that he is writing a young and anxious pastor who is hanging by a thread. You can hear the anxiety
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