41. The year you get a bird feeder for your birthday. And the terrifying thing is, you asked for it. It’s also apparently the year when I’m naming the different terms for “love” found in the Bible and I forget the word “phileo” (Greek for brotherly love) and instead say something that makes my co-ed…
Tag: truth
10 Ways to Love Well
1. Treat EVERY person as if they have value and dignity. Including the ones you disagree with. 2. Treat EVERY person as if they have value and dignity. Including the ones you disagree with. 3. Treat EVERY person as if they have value and dignity. Including the ones you disagree with. Ok, Try and guess…
I DECLARE
Hand me a spoon, because I’m about to stir the pot a little. I’m not going to name names. Lets play a guessing game! Here’s the clue: If a “Christian” leader, pastor, or author delivers a message that is self-affirming and sin-affirming, God did not co-author that message. I am so saddened by the sheer…
Watch This
If you took all the separate, tiny pieces of a watch and put them them in a box, and then proceeded to shake the box forever, do you think the watch would eventually shake into place and start working? No? Me, neither. Our bodies are infinitely more complex than any piece of machinery (even the…
Don’t Be Stupid
The devil is a beautiful woman. Can you imagine being invited into a filthy living room with cracked out junkies gathered around a bag of heroin? Would you take a seat on a frayed couch next to a couple dead bodies and be ready to party? No. You would gather with the beautiful people, though,…
A Christmas Wish For You
Would you still like Santa if he got drunk every now and then and pushed Mrs. Claus around? What if he had a gambling problem and there were bookies dressed as elves waiting to shake him down? Or how about if he was a compulsive liar and a chain smoker? You probably wouldn’t wait in…
Christians and Co-existence?
You’ve probably seen the navy blue bumper stickers with the word “Co-exist” on them. They work little symbols for Judaism, Islam, and Christianity into the word with a cross for the “t”, a star of David for the “o” and the crescent moon for the “c”. But what does co-exist mean? According to our old…
Open Me
Sometimes a little, ordinary sentence can change everything. It’s hard to push past the clouds of a billion different perspectives, and the multitude of voices that ring with heartfelt emotion as they reason their stand for or against one thing or another. And then..one sentence can bring truth home to take its place in our…
Living Well 