A time to embrace, or a time to refrain?
In Ecclesiastes 3, the Preacher writes, “For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven.”...
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Dormant Discipleship
I just wrapped up reading my first book of the month: Tony Payne’s The Thing Is. It’s not the first...
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Go Ahead and Ask
My friend and I sat across from one another at our greasy, small-town breakfast joint. He was enjoying a bacon,...
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How to Walk into Church When You Can't
With COVID-19 sweeping the globe and resulting in unprecedented closures and cancellations of church gatherings, it might seem pointless to...
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Sudden Homeschooler
I thrive on normality and routine; the mundane is my comfort zone. Because I enjoy predictable days and the ability...
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Reading Together for Accountability
I’m very careful in what I promise my children—mostly because they have frighteningly good memories and if I say it’s...
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How to walk out of (online) church
The build-up was the perfect storm. The weather had been terrible for days, but Sunday morning was clear and sunny...
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Multiplying a Good Contagion
As the entire world is affected at this point by the COVID-19 coronavirus, we can learn something from viruses in...
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Exhausted? Be encouraged.
“Why am I so tired?” My hunch is that many of us regularly ask that question. During normal times, the...
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The power of simplicity
For several years I’ve been asking what I could learn from overseas missionaries to apply to my ministry context in...
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