I won't defile my blessings by imagining that I deserve them. Until every human receives the dignity I casually enjoy, I pray my heart aches with ten….

When we realize we can stop being Jesus defenders, we can start being Jesus representatives ..

Our children are humans and deserve to be treated respectfully. Discipline doesn’t include raging, screaming, abusing, neglecting, humiliating, or sh….

While the richest people on earth pray to get richer, the rest of the world begs for intervention with their faces pressed to the window, watching us….

If a fast doesn't include any sacrifices, then it's not a fast. The discomfort is where the magic happens. Life zips along, unchecked and automatic. ….

A fast is not necessarily something we offer God, but it assists us in offering ourselves.

Our only hope to speak with kindness, to lead with patience, and to not threaten our children with homicide is to ensure our spiritual reserves are n….

Maybe we don’t recognize satisfaction because it is disguised as radical generosity, a strange misnomer in a consumer culture..

For whatever reason I was born into privilege; I've never known hunger, poverty, or despair. I have been blessed, blessed, blessed--relationally, emo….

For Jesus, who lived so lightly on this earth, He didn’t even have a place to lay His head. I want so deeply to be like You..

I see a strategy for fracturing humanity well in play: just keep people separated and let them reinforce invented boundaries in their imaginations. B….

It is immature and lazy to imagine we know everything there is to know about someone before we know that someone. We don't know their stories, their ….

Obedience isn’t a lack of fear. It’s just doing it scared..

We cannot carry the gospel to the poor and lowly while emulating the practices of the rich and powerful. We’ve been invited into a story that begins ….

You will never have this day with your children again. Tomorrow they will be a little bigger then they are today. This day is a gift. Breathe and not….

Faith does not always demand that God explains Himself..

As Jesus explained, the right things have to die so the right things can live--we die to selfishness, greed, power, accumulation, prestige, and self-….

Be patient. Do the best with what you know. When you know more, adjust the trajectory..

When the jars of clay remember they are jars of clay, the treasure within gets all the glory, which seems somehow more fitting..

Usually the things we think we need become the very things we need a break from..

God does not change, but He uses change—to change us. He sends us on journeys that bring us to the end of ourselves. We often feel out of control, ye….