Knowledge puffs up. Love builds up (1 Cor 8:1). I write and I preach to strengthen people's faith in love. Let’s face it, I write and preach to strengthen MY faith in love. Faith that you are not defined only by what you do or what you’ve done. But the WHOLE of you. Your experiences, your stories, are your wisdom. The more you tap into that wisdom the more you will discover and embrace who you are becoming.
I’ve tried to organize the posts - the lovely circles - by the topics that inform my preaching, coaching and teaching. I hope the experiences, stories, and wisdom shared here, prompt some supportive insights of your own.
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Love Prompts Me to Preach
Love is my prompt, every time I preach. It’s the one sermon I feel I preach again and again. Even though you and I know they are all different. In this new space I want to prompt myself and prompt you in your preaching!
Letting Words Change Us
In that instant my heart was transformed, and my thinking irrevocably changed. The idea of some misplaced need of ownership of an “institution of marriage”, of keeping it out of the hands of some, seemed pathetically ridiculous.
Fresh Air
The work and happenstance of uncovering and discovering who we are is holy work. It is good, hard, spiritual work to becoming whole. So, in this space, in posts, sermons and reflections I want to continue exploring, validating and wrestling with that experience of becoming. Because I have a feeling the essence of my struggles and joys, have something in common with yours.
