faith-based commentary for people who think
If your solution is to tightly regulate every move we make and every breath we take, then I’ll take my chances with the guns. But don’t you dare insist on your “right to”anything without first dealing with your responsibility to follow God’s law.
I love the gentle rhythms of life here in North Carolina, where even the most challenging circumstances play out against a backdrop of winter, spring, summer, and fall. Cycles of life, regeneration, promise, and beauty.
We cannot legislate morality and we cannot pass a bill that stops irresponsibility. But we can work together to be more of a connected, concerned, supportive, accountable, mutually encouraging community.
Humility, vulnerability, and wide-open hearts may well be the cure for the malaise that runs deep and wide in our culture
Just like Jesus looked at the disciples and said, “You feed them!” in yesterday’s post, today Jesus is looking at his followers today, and saying, “You take care of them.
I don’t care if you’re young or old, rich or poor, black or white or brown or in between, I don’t care if you live in a big house or on the street… at some point Jesus is going to say, ‘You feed them; you take care of one another; you love your neighbor.
Christian faith is this wonderful dance between ancient truth and modern expression. Jesus is the ancient of days and also new every morning.
I believe a little too much is made about what makes a church “right” or “wrong.” As if we as human beings understand God so well that it’s not enough that people love God, love their neighbor, and follow Jesus; some people want us all to conform to their interpretations, with an added overlay of pharisaic religious rules.
If it’s Saturday morning then it must be soccer. David and Beks are only 20 months apart, so they get to play on the same “Y” recreational team.
The heart of the message is that God loves us and that God intends to shine in and through us. And when people look at us that is the message they need to see – to hear – loud and clear.
Today my theme is still the emergence of spring color here in the woods around our home in Wake Forest.
We live in such an amazing and beautiful world, yet so much of the way that we live goes far beyond the planet’s ability to sustain itself. It’s a dismaying idea to think that, maybe, it is humanity – us – that is the decay, and that we are responsible for so much bondage.
Your word is a lamp before my feet and a light for my journey. – Psalm 119:105 There are many “special
