So ages ago I posted this on hospitality and what I was learning about it from Lauren Winner’s book, Mudhouse Sabbath. (I’m still learning.) One of the things she talked about in that chapter was how she felt her apartment just wasn’t right for entertaining well – she had a picnic table in her study…
I lead worship for a bunch of 20somethings and college folks who are chasing Jesus with everything they’ve got on their best days (and still trying to on their less-than-great days). A couple weeks ago we did this thing we call “Sacred Space” – and I have to be honest with you – I poured…
Last night I was on the phone with a friend who was filling me in on how God has answered our prayers for some things in his life, and he finished off by saying, “God is good.” To which I responded with only a split-second hesitation, “All the time.” I could hear the smile in…
Jeremiah 31:21-22: “Set up road signs; put up guideposts. Take note of the highway, the road that you take. Return, O Virgin Israel, return to your towns. How long will you wander, O unfaithful daughter? The LORD will create a new thing on earth – a woman will surround a man.” What?! After three hours…
“There are more colors on the palette of your soul than you have even begun to paint with.” Matt said that in November, three years ago, and I’d forgotten about it until last weekend, when I came across it in a journal, and it made me cry. Apparently it made me cry then too, because…
