Don't You Tell Me No
When Jesus heals the Syrophoenician woman's daughter, he demonstrates that her persistence, her relentlessness, is what faith can look like.
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- Aug 29, 2021
- 5 min
Compelling Not Compulsory
I hope your faith in Christ is such a compelling force that you can’t help but be drawn to it over and over again.
- Aug 22, 2021
- 5 min
The Next Grace-Filled Thing
Being the Body of Christ is about doing the next right thing. Or I would say doing the next grace-filled thing.
- Aug 15, 2021
- 4 min
Sharing Bread is Sharing Community
Bread does fill our stomachs, but it doesn’t fill our hearts– only Jesus can do that.
- Aug 8, 2021
- 5 min
Good News Means We Can't Be Separated
Grace is knowing that there is nothing—not sin, not suffering, not even death—that can separate you from God’s love.
- Aug 1, 2021
- 5 min
Take, Eat, This is My Body
Asking for help, leaning on the Body of Christ, is exactly what faith looks like.
- Jul 25, 2021
- 5 min
We Are the Miracle
Miracles have not disappeared. The abundance is there. The world is just waiting for the Body of Christ to make them happen.
- Jul 18, 2021
- 4 min
Compassion: Simple But Not Easy
True compassion springs forth from an internal feeling – a self-acceptance of ourselves and our own individual weaknesses.
- Jul 11, 2021
- 5 min
Nurturing Courage
The practice of faith is about building up the kind of courage we need to live the gospel.
- Jul 6, 2021
- 6 min
Resting = Trusting in God's Grace
Resting is one big way to demonstrate our trust in God’s grace. We don’t have to keep proving our strength, our worth, our faith.
- Jun 13, 2021
- 6 min
LGBTQIA+ Folks: Showing Everyone the Kingdom of God
I’m here to say that queer folks actively teach the rest of the world something about the Kingdom of God.
- Jun 6, 2021
- 4 min
Making Family of Us All
Everything Jesus did served to bring everyone into his family. His whole ministry was to bring everyone into the in-group.
- May 30, 2021
- 5 min
The Trinity: Be Curious, Not Judgmental
The Trinity manifests a God who asks us to rest in uncertainty, a God who invites our curiosity.
- May 23, 2021
- 5 min
Can These Bones Live?
If we’re just hoping to get back to normal, if we are not transformed, then we are letting the Spirit pass us by.
- May 16, 2021
- 4 min
Stepping Away to Connect with God
Each of us needs to begin to figure out how to create a space to connect with God.
- May 9, 2021
- 5 min
Lay Down Your Power for Your Friends
Laying down our life for our friends doesn’t necessarily mean dying. Maybe we’re called to lay down a way of life.
- May 2, 2021
- 5 min
For Better for Worse, for Richer for Poorer
Why do we reserve the kind of love we proclaim in our wedding vows only for our partners?
- Apr 25, 2021
- 5 min
Transaction vs. Transformation
transformation can only happen when we feel like we belong to one another.
- Apr 18, 2021
- 4 min
Moving Through Grief
We can’t make grief go away—we all know it doesn’t—but grief evolves. It can diminish in intensity, we can and do learn to live with it.
- Apr 11, 2021
- 1 min
Kizimani: Living the Gospel in Kenya
Linda Simmons offers a homily about her work with Kizimani in Kenya.
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