Why are humility and courage so difficult? Wouldn’t it be easier to handle things with humility and courage to prevent pain and suffering? Conflict has such a high price tag.
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Why are humility and courage so difficult? Wouldn’t it be easier to handle things with humility and courage to prevent pain and suffering? Conflict has such a high price tag.
The reason to know about God in the past is so that we can recognize the action of God today.
Peter has not lived up to the person he claimed to be, and because of this incongruity, he has experienced a moral injury.
I want to delve into moral and spiritual injury, looking at ways that we as Christians, ministers, pastors, counselors, and chaplains can respond when we encounter it.
Squaring off against the darkness, acknowledging its created separateness from the light that is God in the lives of people, is our posture for this season.
Let it go. Think the best. Give prayerful time for people to explain, then believe them. Breathe deep and experience the freedom not to flesh out every detail.
I invite you to explore this collection of Lenten articles and sermons from the Mosaic archives.
There’s an ugliness I face every time I write a sermon: competition. I compete with myself, and I compete with the guys.
Twelve-step groups are not the church. And this is a great reason why the church should support them.
The very people who have the greatest possibility of being close to us are the ones we are most likely to envy.
Sometimes Christian community and reconciliation fails because good people do nothing.
Here is what I learned that day about living forgiven, and what I am still trying to live out in my life.
As a Christian I have no tolerance for any sort of #sorrynotsorry theology or doctrine. There is no apology normally; just a demand for forgiveness without any confession of wrong doing.
I find myself listening a lot more than talking. I don’t always find myself hearing God, but I do at least try to listen for God. When I listen in prayer, I don’t always like what I hear.