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When we accept Christ, we become members of his body and commit ourselves to contribute to the corporate witness of Christ’s body.
When we accept Christ, we become members of his body and commit ourselves to contribute to the corporate witness of Christ’s body.
There is a way that seems wise to humankind … and sometimes we need to ignore it.
It seems to me that we are living in a moment in which we need to find signals in the midst of the noise.
After years of pushing myself beyond my own personal limits, it finally became clear
that I needed to stop chasing performance and start getting comfortable with who I am.
When we can’t or are unable to ask new questions or consider new answers, we limit our field of vision.
In doing so, we run the risk of missing the possibilities God provides…of confusing our partial story of God with one that is complete.
While we may not know God’s will for every page of our life story, we do know the Author of our story;
God promises that He is with us always and that every turn of the page has a purpose.
Generous speech is not naive. It doesn’t deny evidence or shy away from discussing bad acts.
Generous speech does, however, exercise restraint.
Outcomes, whether positive or negative, and the situations that arise from them offer fresh opportunities for God’s people to be faithful.
It seems to me that we are living in a moment in which we need to find signals in the midst of the noise. We need to master the art of driving in the rain.
We are free to walk obediently with our God even when we don’t understand where He is taking us.
It can be tempting to think that the first step in inspiring change is vision.
To put it in terms of debt, we seem content to continue spending on credit while our knowledge debt continues to grow.
When you are driving in a heavy rainstorm, the rain is a distraction. It obscures our normal field of vision and forces us to look for new signs.
As Christians, I believe we need to commit to do the hard work of discerning how to engage the opinions of others.
We are a community that knows Christ defeated sin and death. We are a community prepared to follow Christ in the midst of storms.
Ultimately, it felt like the train was moving too quickly to stop, so I let the inertia carry me into doctoral studies.
This group of young professionals expressed excitement about the pressure their leadership put on their department to be creative and to innovate.
The way we think and act in the world is rooted in the questions we ask ourselves.
As we sit in our homes allowing the systems and structures put in place to flatten the curve, we would do well to use our time in quarantine to exert some “moral effort.”