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When You’re Asked to Choose Between Truth and Love

I always wish I was cooler. That desire would run my life, except that even more than wishing I was cooler, I want to follow Jesus. I wish following Jesus provided all the answers to life’s complex questions (because, how cool would I be if I knew those answers), but in over six decades of …[ read more ]

Why We Need More Tension, Not Less

People are tired. I hear it everywhere. There is a weariness we can’t shake. One lovely women’s event coordinator told me, “My ladies are stressed and weary. We probably need to hear about hard conversations and racial healing, but we honestly can’t take it. Can you bring us something light and funny?” I get it. …[ read more ]

How to Survive Our Country This Week

What do we do with someone else’s pain? Especially when it leads them to direct their anger towards us. Trauma and open wounds can lead people to toss the baby out with the bathwater, but what if that baby came to save? What if we represent that baby? Days before another election and it feels …[ read more ]

The Passive Idolatry that Renders Us Silent

Why do we remain silent? Why do Jesus-loving people clam up about deeply held truth? Why are we not talking about all God is, all He does, and the stakes of not choosing Jesus in most conversations? Why do we stay quiet, hoping someone else will speak or hoping our lives will do all the …[ read more ]

Should You Receive Special Treatment?

I was traveling back from a speaking engagement when I was upgraded to first class. That was my first experience in first class, and I imagine it’s my last. I won’t lie. It was nice having leg room and deferential service. And I just rolled my eyes when one of the last passengers to board …[ read more ]