Over the last few days, I have been following the developing news story in Syria. For those who missed it, there was a horrible massacre in Syria last Friday, which took the lives of over 100 people - 49 which, I believe, were children. I listened to the testimony of a Syrian national who questioned …
More Reflections on Living a Simplified Life
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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Life Doesn’t Get Much Simpler than This
Here is a sure-fire, three step solution to simplify your busy, complicated life. Ready. Ok. Believe me you will be amazed! Step 1: Act justly. Step 2: Love mercy. Step 3: Walk humbly with your God. That's it! I told you it was pretty simple. Everything that God requires of us, He has laid out …
The One Thing You Will Never Lose
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 …
Measuring the Impact of Our Lives
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 …
Is God a Man or a Woman?
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, …
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