If your day-to-day life is anything like mine, then you are consistently faced with the complexities of this question that don’t make for easy answers. People we care about deeply, and who we want to experience the freeing grace of Christ, challenge us to truly wrestle with what it looks like to practically engage people relationally in a way that actually keeps Jesus’ top priorities in the primary place.
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“Let him who cannot be alone beware of community. Let him who is not in community beware of being alone. Each by itself has profound pitfalls and perils. One who wants fellowship without solitude plunges into a void of words and feelings, and one who seeks solitude without fellowship perishes in the abyss of vanity, [...]
“His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature, having escaped the corruption in [...]
Having discussed a couple of the ways that Jesus wants to interact and encounter us in our everyday lives – let us look at one more – the type of interaction that we don’t often like Jesus to have with us. Picture this: *** You are preparing for a date that you have been looking [...]
Throughout the summer months I’m going to be talking through each week of discussion over the past semester at theCanvas. I apologize for dropping the ball on my weekly writing, but think my failure has created a unique opportunity. We get to explore the themes, ideas, and scriptures that we spent time with for an [...]
We see Jesus interacting with people in a myriad of ways throughout the canonical gospels. These, now, written accounts of his life give us an account, a portal, through which to learn, study, and ultimately experience the life of this man who actually walked this earth in a body made of flesh and blood. These [...]
Last week I was sent an email with song lyrics that corresponded with the discussion we had at theCanvas on Wednesday night (thank you Jordan!). I’ll share some of them with you: Jerusalem and the holy temple filled with smoke Zechariah shuns the news from the angel of hope stuck behind an incense cloud of [...]
There is something about this Christmas season that is different than any other that I have previously experienced… First, and probably the main reason for the rest, I am now married. I am creating a home with someone with whom I will share life. This thing (marriage) that I longed to have appear in my [...]
I believe that God is calling all of us to the place where we are always… learning to ride…
I like to watch television shows like ‘American Pickers’ and ‘Pawn Stars.’ The thing is… I don’t love them so much that I am willing to go out of my way to see these shows. For me, they aren’t worth staying up late and finding on Hulu. Although I’m not in a place to watch [...]
