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How to Love Your Neighbor in a Crisis… When You Don’t Really Know Them
Dear Amy, We had a tragedy on our street last week. The 23-year-old daughter of a neighbor committed suicide. In the seven years we've lived here we've only met them once or twice. My heart is so broken for them, but we are virtually strangers. I find myself stopping...
You Are Not Responsible… kinda.
God bonked me on the head with this passage from Ezekiel 3 today - "Look, I’m not sending you to a people who speak a hard-to-learn language with words you can hardly pronounce. Don’t be afraid of them, even though they’re a bunch of rebels. Get all these words that...
Week 11: Share
You can’t proclaim the name of Jesus from your front porch then be surprised when the devil answers your call. The calendar gets crowded, the family starts fighting, someone gets sick, bills mount and work boils over. When a person is on the verge of a breakthrough in...
Week 10: Encourage
Sometimes doomsday arrives in the form of a knock on your door late at night, or papers served as you go to work. Learn a strategy that's helped prepare for TEOTWAWKI (The End of the World as We Know It) for the past 2,000 years and will work in your neighborhood...
The Most Beautiful “No”
It was 2014. I had run a Bible Study in my neighborhood for a couple years, so you'd think I would be a pro at this. But, in the weeks before each new Bible Study session started, I struggled to invite people to the first week. With the nervous sweat of a teenaged boy...
Week 9: Welcome
Martha gets a bum rap as the cranky sister in the kitchen who sasses Jesus and bosses Him around. Truth is, someone has to get the house ready when guests are coming! The root of the word "hospitality" is the same as the words "hospital" and "hospice.” To practice...
