The Morning After
When it feels like everything is over maybe you’re standing in front of the part you can’t see past right now. There’s another chapter on the other side of that door.
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There’s a Room With Your Name on It
The life we live between the homes is the whole point of discipleship.
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Good Shepherds Smell Like Sheep
If we don’t smell like sheep, the sheep will never trust us or follow us. Leaders need to be where their people are.
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When the Dream Dies
A dying dream doesn’t mean the end of the story. Sometimes a closed door is the launch of a new chapter.
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The Ordinary Goodness
It seems like every time I turn around another relationship is crumbling. New couples blindsided by hurdles nobody prepared them for. Couples married for decades leaving each other for something different. And couples you’d never expect ending years of outward happiness because they’re just not feeling it anymore. I don’t say it enough, but I’m…
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He Gave the Morsel to the Man Going Out to Betray Him
What the last supper says about the quality of love we’re actually called to There’s a detail in John 13 that most people read right past. Jesus is at the Passover table with his twelve closest friends. He knows what’s about to happen. He knows one of them is going to hand him over to…
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Two Kinds of Hunger
Two parallel lines that never cross cannot make each other more bold. What would happen if these paths could cross?
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The Fryer Wasn’t the Problem
Tickets kept coming back wrong in a kitchen I worked years ago. We retrained the line, posted new checklists, had the manager stand over the window reading tickets out loud. Every fix worked for about three days.
Turns out the tickets were never the real problem.
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The Canoe Got Us Here. It Won’t Get Us There.
What do you do when what got you here, can’t get you there? Just finished “Canoeing the Mountains” by Tod Bolsinger, and I can’t stop thinking about the image at the center of it. A canoe, strapped to exhausted men’s backs, being carried over a mountain range because the river ran out.
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Who Told You About Jesus?
There’s a chain that can’t be broken. It started before you and it will go beyond you. What part will you play in keeping this chain going?
