Archives for August 2017

God gave blessings and God gave boundaries. Joseph knew that he couldn’t accept one without the other....

With success comes challenge....

The Lord’s blessing on the household didn’t remove Joseph’s challenges, but they did change his experience....

Your prospering doesn’t ultimately depend on your circumstances....

Though God is not mentioned once in Genesis 37, we later discover that he was at work all throughout this painful and difficult episode....

Let’s refuse to participate in the destructive practice of dehumanization....

Our dreams can reveal our areas of immaturity, as can our way of communicating them. ...

Favoritism is one of many broken relational patterns that separate us from each other....

We can’t rid ourselves of our automatic habit of capturing first impressions as we meet new people, but we can cultivate habits of attention that allow us to look beyond those initial judgements....

The Lord constantly works through communities. For every great figure in the story of our faith, we also find the Lord sending them friends....

As God’s blessings pile up in and around us, we need to share them with others. Only then will God’s blessings to us be complete....

God holds up his side of the covenant. Though his covenant purposes advance over rocky terrain, they advance nonetheless....

God's invitation stands. It’s our turn to respond. What will we do?...

The adventure of life with God gives us healing and joy and blessing, but it also stretches us. We leave familiar territory, relationships, programs, and narratives behind when we launch out into this adventure....

What if the craziness we feel when we’re crazy busy is due to having two different songs playing inside of us: the drumbeat of eternity and the roar of busyness?...

God has made everything beautiful in its time. Even us. ...

Without meaning, work becomes miserable and we lose our drive....

This burst of poetry reaches out and connects with our hearts. We’re given space to connect viscerally and emotionally with God’s truth about the seasonal nature of life....

God does huge things in our lives when we shift from Now-Or-Never Thinking to Season Thinking....

The Lord is the one who makes known to us the paths of life....

Contentment is the fruit of a soul who’s put down roots in the generosity of God....

We love hard work. We work hard. But the Lord is the one who holds our ultimate security....

Other gods make big promises if only we’ll worship them. They give us benefits in the short-term (sometimes). But over time these gods fail us. And we suffer more and more as a result of our bondage to them....