I drove by a church readerboard last week that said, To know God is to love God. Simple enough, right? A little pithy. Maybe too simple, but memorable. Initially, I didn’t think much of the philosophical/theological/epistemological statement. In a sense, it’s absolutely true. You can’t love something, or more specifically someone, you don’t know. Yet,…
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Commitment Inspires Love
This Saturday I’ll be performing a wedding for a couple that I’ve known the better part of a decade. It will be wonderful to see a lot of old friends and to celebrate the coming together of this young couple. In my meetings with them leading up to this marriage ceremony, we’ve discussed the role…
Life Wins
For the entire length of my Christian faith I’ve always placed a high priority on a few simple, quiet moments of reading, prayer, quietness, and meditation. In high school we called this JAM time. In college we called it quiet time. As an adult I simply think of it as soul cultivation. In these moments…
Who You Are
“One of the tragedies of our life is that we keep forgetting who we are.” Henri Nouwen — At my lowest point I find it easy to summarize my life through my mistakes and my brokenness. I am a sinner. I am a failure. I can’t do something right. These are the names I call…
God, What I Need Most From You Right Now Is…
God, what I need most from you right now is… Encouragement. I need to know that what I do day in and day out really matters to you and makes a difference to others. I find it so easy to dwell on my shortcomings and missteps, and it is the encouragement You give that reminds…
We All Have Worth
I was recently having coffee with an acquaintance to get to know him a little better. He’s been active in trying to get some business ideas off the ground and I thought it would be fun to hear more about the story. After about a half-hour of talking about life and some of their latest…