Archives for February 2016

Who can help us cross fault-lines by receiving us when we make the leap across the divide?...

We’re tempted to fill in those gaps. And, having filled in those gaps, we’re tempted to be guarded and defensive....

When we decide which rules to keep and which rules to toss, we end up leveraging rules to maintain divisions between us and people who are different from us....

Habits ingrained over the course of a lifetime can be hard to break....

Although Peter didn’t know it, he was being positioned by God to extend God’s mission across a barrier that had never been crossed....

Throughout human history, fault lines have appeared and divided humanity. ...

There seems ...

Listening is a powerful response to a complaint....

Bringing the breakdown to the surface ......

What happens next ...

Challenge always comes with growth. The question that’s presented to us is: “What will we do in response to these challenges?”...

If this mission really is from God, it goes from “mission impossible” to “mission inevitable.”...

Take time to cultivate an ear for the voice of the Lord....

The same God who provides daring rescues also sends his people into dangerous situations. But he never sends them alone....

Why do the same circumstances harden some and polish others?...

God forms us and shapes us and makes us bold-patient-loving in the midst of our day-to-day lives....

When God’s people leave life in their wake, social systems around them are transformed....

And our community, filled with grace and the Holy Spirit, should be a place where we’re continually seeing relationships get healthier and healthier....

Wounds aren’t always physical....

Let’s avoid hollow and unhelpful answers....

Those of us who are Jesus’ followers will, at times, have the privilege to pray for healing for people, reach out and touch them, and God will bring new life....