One way to love well is to develop healthy boundaries that free you to bond with others as equals, knowing that inherent in all people is both good and bad.
The most subversive things we can do in these times is love without condition, correct error with truth in grace, and acknowledge our own blind spots with humility.
Fermenting hate, denigrating the humanity of other people, and withholding mercy makes one the very thing they are opposed to.
We can do better.
I know we can.
I have seen it.
I can do better.
#Wordle 1,335 4/6*
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The #OldGal posted a 4 today as well. Any 3s out there?
Good morning! May you choose to be kind today. #MorningMug #Discipline2025
Sometimes when you’re working on sermon you get a bit overwhelmed by the text. I am going to teach Micah over the next three weeks and woof. It’s punching me in the gut.
This Sunday at Peace Presbyterian Church in Flint at 10:45 am and at The Acts 13 Network in Ypsilanti at 530 pm we will begin a three week exploration of the prophet, Micah. His message of doom and hope is timely for us today.
If you’ve been looking for a faith community in Ypsilanti or Flint, I hope you will join us.
I am staring at my to do list and I have no interest in it whatsoever. I am just going to start at the top.
Here…
We…
Go…
Oh my! This new Micro Social app for Micro.blog is gorgeous.
Good morning! May your to-do list shrink today. #MorningMug #Discipline2025
#Wordle 1,334 4/6*
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The #OldGal also scored a 4 today. Any #YoungPups with a birdie?
People of a certain age all have some shared television experiences. First, when we were sick and home from school we would watch The Price is Right. Second, when we stayed up late watching something on TV we would inevitably see something called an “infomercial.” Read the rest…
Jesus in Conversation - Philip and Nathanael
People of a certain age all have some shared television experiences. First, when we were sick and home from school we would watch The Price is Right. Second, when we stayed up late watching something on TV we would inevitably see something called an “infomercial.”
These long form commercials somehow would suck you in and you just couldn’t turn it off. The salesperson would be doing their pitch and then they would say, “But wait! There’s more!” Then they would sweeten the deal.
A whole generation was trained by television to wait for something more. Perhaps this is why my generation is typically unimpressed by many things and always waiting for the other shoe to drop. Because, it turns out that, “wait, there’s more,” isn’t only for good stuff.
As I was reading through this next conversation with Jesus that is recorded in John’s Gospel, I couldn’t help but think that there might have been a narrator in the background saying, “but wait, there’s more…”
The first season of this podcast was very helpful for me to think through biases. It really challenged me to think through the way I thought about “those people.”
In our current cultural moment, perhaps you will find this helpful as well.
Good morning! May you press into that difficult thing you have been avoiding. #MorningMug #Discipline2025
#Wordle 1,333 X/6*
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The #OldGal scored a 3. My streak broke at 528.
