A few days ago, I shared three guaranteed steps that will help you live a simplified life: Pursue Justice, Love Mercy and Walk Humbly with your God (Micah 6.8). What do these things look like? Pursue Justice: For me, seeking justice means overturning systems of injustice. It means putting an end to the oppression and …
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After a long but rewarding afternoon, I finally sat this evening to pray. And no sooner than I had, my daughter who should have been sleeping started to cry. And then I started to remember all of the things that I had to do, the lists that I told myself I would accomplish before the …
What will people say about you when you are gone? What will be said about your life, your family, your ministry, your church, your organization in its absence? Will people and the communities that you lived and worked in every day notice that you are no longer there? Will they sense and understand all too …
I started writing this post nearly two years ago. But then my daughter was born. I came back to it shortly thereafter but could not figure out where I was going with it and then abandoned it altogether. It was only recently, last week actually when I read Mimi Haddad’s post, Worship a Male God, …
We all want to be something great! And we all want to be known for doing something great. Whether that is excelling in business, raising a family, being a politician, having a ministry - whatever we do, we want ourselves and everybody else around us to know that we were the best in our areas …
Have you ever had a song that keeps ringing back in your head no matter what situation or circumstance that you find yourself in? I mean, it doesn't matter if you are happy, sad, floating on cloud nine or feel like you are sinking in Lake Michigan - this song just keeps coming back to …
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