— 1 — It’s finally spring/almost-summer in the Mid-West, and can I just tell you how happy that makes me? It has been warm and sunny for almost a week, and it’s like something within me that I didn’t even know had been wound so tightly is just slowly unwinding and relaxing. I know we…
The Church has an amazing story. A story full of hope and beauty – longings met, sins forgiven, reconciliation made possible, and grace abounding – all because of one single Jewish carpenter who put His chisel of Word and Presence to the hard-as-stone hearts of His people and gave His life to ensure they would…
i have a friend who has wrestled with God for a really long time about being single. at one point, he truly felt that the Lord was asking him to surrender his dreams for a family, and learning to live in the tension between honestly wanting to surrender and yet not being super-happy about it…
We’ve talked about what not to say to your single friends – and knowing what not to say is certainly helpful – but what do we say instead? How do we learn from stories like Sara’s, and create a culture within the church that doesn’t make single people feel like second-class citizens? You’ll notice that…
I’ve read a lot of books about being single over the past twenty years. I’ve been a Lady In Waiting, and I Kissed Dating Good-bye with everyone else in the 90s (although somehow most of them managed to get married anyway). I’ve thought a lot about Passion and Purity, and wondered: If Men Are Like Buses, Then…
