I’ve always been one of those people who does a little bit of everything. Often my activities pull me in multiple directions with minimal overlap. In high school I was a student athletic trainer and served on my youth group leadership team. My resume includes a variety of jobs including working for a local health…
See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. (1 John 3:1 NIV) For some time now, I’ve been crazy about the word lavish—a juicy word that…
For the summer the devotional team members at The Glorious Table are taking a much-deserved break from the regularly scheduled Milk & Honey devotions on Saturdays. This season is one of extraordinary busyness, beautiful weather, wild family vacations, and, in general, everything simply being different than the rest of the year. So instead of the usual post to read…
It turns out there are no shortcuts to get the job done. Even now as I sit at my keyboard, struggling to put my thoughts into words, I yearn for the Easy Button made famous by Staples ads. I am looking for a formula, a blueprint, or the ubiquitous “five easy steps to success.” I…
“It just wasn’t, I mean, it was…” I was looking for the right words. “It just wasn’t your sweet spot for ministry,” he said. I breathed a huge sigh of relief. Yes, this was the explanation I had spent weeks searching for, and with a few sentences of explaining my passions to Henry, the campus…
“Christ has no body on earth but yours, no hands but yours, no feet but yours. Yours are the eyes through which Christ’s compassion for the world is to look out; yours are the feet with which he is to go about doing good; and yours are the hands with which he is to…