Your next Love Your Neighbor Challenge is to serve your neighbors. Intentionally serve outside your usual church circles to meet people from a variety of backgrounds and interests... kinda like Jesus did when He left heaven to come serve us. Choose a local organization or cause that aligns with your passion and experience, and spend some time learning about the people they serve and how they are structured. Here are some tips to help you get started!Serve with your hands Invest some elbow...

Your challenge on the next Love Your Neighbor Challenge is to give a gift to a neighbor. If you don't know your neighbor well (or at all!), having a little gift for them gives you something to talk about as soon as the door is opened. It's an instant ice breaker. How did you feel the last time someone gave you an unexpected gift? Donna recently gave me a vintage dish towel that matches my kitchen, Bettie gave me a pair of socks to go with a new sweater, and Michelle gave me a bowl of soup made...

In 1949, Hank Williams, Sr. wrote a song called I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry. When this song first hit the airwaves, less than 10 percent of homes contained only one person. But today? On your street? One in four of the homes on your street is occupied by one person living alone. Of course, being alone is not the same as loneliness... but throw in a pandemic and some lockdowns, and loneliness is on the rise on your block and around the world.   That's why your next Love Your Neighbor Challenge...

When my husband was injured in a home accident, our neighbors helped us in more ways than one. When one neighbor shouted for help, another came running with her husband - who is also a doctor. An emergency room nurse who lived one street over offered to make a house call, and another neighbor brought still-warm brownies when she learned what happened. As he recovered at home, a neighbor kindly stopped jackhammering their patio so he could rest. Today you will HELP a neighbor in the Love Your...

(Please excuse me while I go check Facebook.)(OK, I’m back.) I just LOL’ed and liked something funny Jessica’s daughter said, wished Peggy a happy birthday, and high-fived Michelle’s morning run. Last night I prayed via Messenger with a far-off friend about some frightening medical procedures. Social networks are a symptom of our need for relationships; they are not the solution.The solution is found smack dab in the middle of your neighborhood—the original social network—a convenient,...