Justice Never Looked So Cute

I want to give a big, ginormous, happy shout-out to my friend Caroline and her amazing new venture, Scarlet Threads!
Now Caroline is, in general, just an incredibly wonderful and heartfelt person, but this is just another reason to love her more! She and her friends, Carrie and Jacob, have been living in rural China for [...]

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“I Have Everything I Need.”

I subscribe to Freecycle, a community “newsletter” of sorts where people in your area can post up items they need or want to give away, in order to keep things out of landfills and garbage cans. (It’s consistently amazing what people throw away — my brother-in-law does cleaning side-jobs for some local (Christian, to boot) [...]

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The Mentoring Project

The Mentoring Project is an organization begun by one of my very favorites, Donald Miller, to match young boys without fathers or positive male role models with men from local churches. It’s a wonderful organization that I am proud to be a supporter of, and wanted to share this short video with you all (I [...]

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Thoughts.

“Charity is commendable; everyone should be charitable. But justice aims to create a social order in which, if individuals choose not to be charitable, people still don’t go hungry, unschooled, or sick without care.” — Bill Moyers
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“The followers of Christ have been called to peace. And they must not only have peace but also make [...]

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Beautiful Moments

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I was driving home from work yesterday, and was waiting at a busy intersection near my office when I saw a woman handing a man grocery bags from the trunk of her car. At first, I was trying to figure out what in the world these two were doing in a dry cleaner’s [...]

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“They Were All Together in One Place.”

It’s Pentecost Sunday. I’ve been a Christian my whole life, and all I knew about Pentecost up until today was that it was when the Holy Spirit descended upon the disciples and prompted them to speak in different languages. Frankly, it always seemed a little weird and archaic to me, so I paid it little [...]

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A Holy Pursuit

Pursue peace with everyone, and the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.
- Hebrews 12:14
My interpretation of what Paul is saying (if he indeed was the one who penned Hebrews): when we pursue situations with a goal other than peace, we prevent people from seeing God. Is peace the only holy pursuit?
Just something [...]

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Change is Loss, Loss is Change

“Change is loss and loss is change.”
Rob taught on this a few weeks ago, and as I was looking through my journal, I came across it again.
I have wrestled a lot with change lately, as anyone who reads this blog can see. I have tortured myself with finding God’s will, all the while not even [...]

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I was Rescued on April 25, 2009

It was pouring rain so hard that at times I couldn’t actually see. It was the biggest thunderstorm I’d seen in a year. I tasted the shampoo from my freshly washed hair run down my cheeks and into my mouth, and was silently thankful that I hadn’t bothered to put on any makeup. I watched [...]

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The Rescue

For 23 years, the government of Uganda and a rebel group called the Lord’s Resistance Army, led by a man named Joseph Kony, has engaged in Africa’s longest war.
90% of all these LRA soliders in Uganda are children.
On April 25, join thousands of others all across the world, and abduct yourselves.
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