Resolve to Form New Community

January 1, 2018.Reading time 2 minutes.

Happy New Year! Now, before all of confetti is accounted for and removed, before the balloons begin to deflate, returning to their natural state, before you and I lose the momentum of the moment and the newness of this year rubs off, I want to ask you to do something. I know that it will […]

One Resolution

January 1, 2017.Reading time 1 minute.

From Christmas lists to New Year’s resolutions, we have numbered our hopes of making others and ourselves happy. But, there is but one resolve for the Christian, the Great commandment. Matthew records, “When the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together, 35 and one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. […]

Happy New Life!

January 4, 2016.Reading time 8 minutes.

I need to see your hands. Put the pen down and slowly back away from the list. Before you begin your annual declaration of independence from unhealthy food and toxic people, before you purchase the gym membership or enlist your friends as accountability partners, before you buy clothing two sizes too small or a new […]