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Neighboring meets ripple-effect faith. I call it missional neighboring.
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Something a Snake Invasion Teaches About How to Pray
I relate to the way the Israelites prayed. When something terrible happens, I want God to take it away. But the snake invasion teaches something significant about how to pray.
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40 Fundamentals Fresh on the Mind as I Turn 40
But all of a sudden, you’re the age your teenage self remembers your parents. So you begin a list of little learnings you’ve picked up the past four decades. Fundamentals, you title it.
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Finitude, Focus, and Other Delicate Musings About Life
There's a comforting conjunction of crisp and cozy that enters with autumn. A deliberate extension of the both/ands that offer hope along with the hard.
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How to Find the Intersection of the Sacred and the Mundane
Our small view of the sacred suggests that faith doesn’t fit into the irregular and messy parts of life. The times you’re running late and say a hurried hello and see-you-later to a neighbor.
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10 Things You Don’t Have to Do Before Inviting Neighbors Inside
Our brains are always telling us what we have to do, as if there’s always more we could–should–be doing. We’re continually privy to the guilty nagging, the critical comparison, the insistent whisper of not enough,…
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A Farewell to Summer 2026: How to Go From Good to Better
Maybe you feel like you’re falling into fall too. Barely ready. Rarely at your best. And yet, there’s a quiet, undeniable inkling that something is missing.