Jennifer Woodruff Tait (PhD, Duke University) is the editor of and frequent contributor to Life for Leaders. She is also the managing editor of Christian History magazine and web editor for the Theology of Work Project, and a priest in the Episcopal Church. She has written a book of poetry, Histories of Us. Jennifer lives in Berea, Kentucky, with her husband, Edwin, and their two daughters.
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The Root of All Evil
We may find ourselves loving money because money buys security. And security may make us think we are the ones who made ourselves secure, rather than the One to whom we owe everything.
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The Janitor
Whether we got lost by ourselves or whether the systems of society lost us does not matter to the Lord. What he’s interested in is finding us, saving us, and rejoicing with us.
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The Chief of Sinners?
No matter how exemplary our mentors were and how well and deeply they followed Christ, they still, as my grandma used to say, put their pants on one leg at a time just like everyone else, spiritually speaking. They were still saved by the grace of Christ, just as we are.
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Compel Them to Come In
Confusing and yet overpowering images and implications come out of these parables. All are welcome. Turning down Jesus’s invitation has serious consequences.
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Yesterday, Today, and Forever
Jesus has been with you in the past and will go with you into the future.
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Have No Fear, Little Flock
If we do not put the kingdom first, then we run the risk of being hypocrites who do things behind closed doors we would not want spoken of openly..
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So Great a Cloud of Witnesses
With all of these witnesses to accompany us—even cheering us on—the author says that we now need to look where the path is going: Jesus.
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Daily Bread
Jesus has told me what I should pray for in order to advance his Kingdom. Most especially, I know that he has told me to pray each day for the bread I need for that day.
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Knowledge and Vital Piety
Paul was very aware that he was competing in a marketplace of ideas in the first-century Greco-Roman world.
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A Neighbor
We are saved by the limitless grace of Christ on the cross, the source of all mercy. But that does not mean that our works don’t matter..
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A Plumb Line
In the small ways in which God has given us to lead, have we been just? Have we been kind? Have we been generous? Have we been righteous?
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The Fruit of the Spirit’s Not a Kiwi
The fruit of the spirit is not a kiwi. It’s also not a “super-spiritual” life that disdains the material world.
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The God of Elijah
Where is the Lord, the God of Elijah? He is still here, and we can still follow him.
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Father, Son, and Holy Spirit
What implications does the idea of relating to those around you with the same mutual, self-giving love that characterizes the Trinity have for your life and work?
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No Pit So Deep
In times of trial—which there will be no shortage of for believers—we can know and feel that the Triune God is with us.
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