Let’s face it: some people are harder to love than others. Sometimes it’s their personality or behavior, but often those are formed by their story. Someone treated them harshly when they were younger; they had a terrible role model in their mother or father; they were abused; they were orphaned; they were rejected. These things…
I have a super power. Now, before you get excited, you need to understand that in the overall superhero lexicon of powers, mine ranks pretty much dead last. See, my super power is angering people I thought were my friends. The worst part of my super power? I generally have no idea I’ve used it….
“Outwardly you look like righteous people, but inwardly your hearts are filled with hypocrisy and lawlessness.” (Matt. 23:28) From the outside it looked just fine. It looked like any other trash can on the road waiting for pick-up. It wasn’t even overflowing. Outside it was exactly as it should have been. But the inside contained…
“Oh what we would be if we stopped carrying the remains of who we were.” ~Tyler Knot Gregson When I boarded a train in New York to attend college in Dallas, I had two pieces of luggage and two days of travel before me. The unknown seemed as vast as the plains that stretched from…
In what is commonly known as the parable of the great feast, Jesus describes how a man prepared a feast and invited many people. Each potential guest politely declined with a lame excuse. Let’s be honest. What is our initial response to God’s invitations to us in comparison to this parable? Do we tend to…
During college, I worked as an orientation leader for two consecutive years. I spent the summers before and after graduation working eighteen-hour days. It was the hardest work I’ve ever done. We lived and worked on campus, and our coworkers were our roommates. It felt like there was no escape. We cried together and because…