Butter, Play-Doh & Jesus
Imagine sitting outside with butter in one hand and an open container of Play-Doh in the other. We are like one of them. Which describes you?
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You Don’t Have a Truth Problem. You Have an Abiding Problem.
Why knowing about the truth and actually being free are two completely different things Imagine. You go to the doctor and the scan shows something serious. The doctor sits down and tells you what she found. Do you look at her and say: well, that’s your version of the truth. I have my own version,…
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You’re Not Afraid of the Dark. You’re Afraid of What the Light Will Show.
What happens when the light shows up in the places you’ve been hiding things You have a junk drawer. Don’t try to deny it. It’s the one in the kitchen. The one you close quickly when someone asks where the spoons are. It has a bottle opener, a lighter, some keys you can’t throw away…
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You Keep Going Back to the Wrong Well
Why the thing you’re drinking from isn’t satisfying the thirst you actually have We have a spring on the back of our property. It’s not dramatic. Just a wet spot on a hill that never dries out. Even in July when everything else is cracked and brown. Even in the winters when the temperature drops…
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You Already Speak the Language. You Just Don’t Know It Yet.
Why your passion is a doorway and not a distraction I have a friend whose entire world was sports. Not casually interested in sports. Completely fluent in sports. He could give you the batting average of any Reds player from 2014. He could tell you the rushing yards from every Buckeyes game he’d ever watched….
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The Table That Was Closed Is Open
Why the hunger you can’t name might be the most important thing about you There is a hunger that doesn’t have a name. You know the one. It’s not the hunger you feel at noon when you skipped breakfast. It’s deeper than that. It’s that low-grade ache, that sense that something is missing. It’s the…
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You’re Not Actually Hungry for What You Think You’re Hungry For
Why the thing you’re chasing to fill the void probably isn’t the thing Somewhere out there right now, someone is ordering an embarrassingly expensive pizza delivery. We’ve all been there. Hungry, slightly irrational, willing to spend money or time or energy we don’t really have just to scratch the itch. The hunger takes over and…
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He Just Wants Your Lunch
I have a confession. I used to throw breadcrumbs at the altar. Not metaphorically, literally. During my vicarage, I was assigned a stewardship sermon and I showed up with a baguette, broke off pieces representing every budget line in a family’s life. By the end I had a pile of crumbs. And I threw them…
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He Meets You Where You Can Love Him
In John 21, Jesus meets Peter in his imperfect love and commissions him anyway. What that means for your faith might change how you follow Jesus.
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The Right Side of the Boat
There’s a moment most people hit eventually. You’ve been grinding. Showing up. Doing what you know how to do. And it’s not working. Not a little slow. Nothing. No traction. No payoff. Just effort disappearing into the dark. That’s where this story starts. A group of guys go out to fish, something they’ve done their…
