Beginning with Eve, you began a tradition of passing down motherhood for generations to come.
All in Discipleship
Beginning with Eve, you began a tradition of passing down motherhood for generations to come.
It sounds good on the surface, but it's actually difficult to explain how it works in real life.
Lord, God of Sara, Rebekah, and Rachel;
and God of Hagar, Bilhah, and Zilpah.
When Mother’s Day comes along, I start squirming, and I really just want to move on to Monday when no one is launching Proverbs 31 grenades at me.
Long before the "Keep Calm and Carry On" posters were so popular and parodied, Charlie Siburt was teaching us the importance of the non-anxious presence.
My love for you is inexpressible, incomprehensible, and profoundly exhaustive.
This is healing at its deepest place in the human soul. We are powerless to create it, control it, cause it, or even manage it.
I fight solitude with all my being; I resist purposefully stopping to rest with God. Sometimes, I use excuses of all that depends on me to get done.
The question hangs in the air because the answer will come not through the words of Jesus, but through the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus.
Here is what I learned that day about living forgiven, and what I am still trying to live out in my life.
I stopped trusting God with my kids a while ago because of the accident, because of the C-section, because of the therapy, because of all the pain, all the fear, all the brokenness in the world.
Silence and solitude are the crux of where God’s transformative work has taken place in my own life.
It is easy to talk about churches not having a vision … but I think many ministers often lose sight of their calling because we’ve gotten too tied up in our calling.
Our fear of being wrong leads us to the worst kind of wrongness—the kind that clusters and alienates.
While most of you are not academically situated practical theologians, you all participate in the practical dimensions of theology.
It is a profound thought. The notion that our God is capable of creating a new world. Of calling into being things that were not.
We may not often reflect deeply about how our own self-awareness plays a crucial role in the capacity to lead in our various settings.
I have been in an unexpected wilderness for the past four weeks, as my depression has stepped out of line for no apparent reason, and is upsetting my routine.
What matters most is that the ones pointing our churches to the spring of living water, are drinking deeply from it themselves.
Contemporary studies of leadership carry on the process of wisdom including close observation of life to formulate principles for effective leaders.