I’m starting a little series that I’ll occasionally do as described in my previous post Fine Lines in the Faith. Division vs. Diversity Goodness is this not a hot topic today or what?! Perhaps division and diversity have been around since the beginning of time; however, division seems to be increasing in our culture, widening the gap between all kinds of moral and ideological views. I’m not going…
Hello! It’s been awhile since I’ve written. There are many topics I’d like to explore but I would like to come back to the main reason for starting Fine Lines in the Faith, where it came from, and what exactly it means. I’ve recently come out of a 10 year season that was spiritually rough. During that time, I experienced high anxiety (took me to the line where…
I was sitting in church last Sunday and marveling at the deep joy I had been experiencing. My thoughts immediately started down a path of all that I had done to get to this place. And then I paused. I caught myself in a temptation to take credit for something that was not done on my own merit and I had to humbly repent of any such notion.…
Sometimes there’s an undoing that needs to take place in our lives. Perhaps what’s been done in our hearts and minds was laid down by foundations like family, church, education, and we’ve been influenced by relationships within those groups. Some of the foundation laid has been very good. Some has not. God will often use tension within, external struggle, conflict, and even oppression or depression to reveal to…
Years ago while in my 20s, I went through a season of God teaching me how to walk like an authentic Christian. I never thought that would be a painful process, but it was. He broke my weak spiritual legs, so to speak, only to grow stronger legs to walk this journey. Don’t they say bones grow stronger after being broken? One spring Sunday morning, I had gotten…
I’ve heard it said, be authentic with all, transparent with most, and vulnerable with a few. Recently I spoke with a friend about transparency within the church. We both agreed that transparency may be lacking in some areas and perhaps it’s experienced more outside the church walls than within. Why is that? Are we afraid we are not measuring up to a certain standard of Christianity? Are we…