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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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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The Peace of Christ
No matter how dark it gets—even up to and including death itself—the peace of Christ is available to us, given anew over and over again by the Holy Spirit.
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And Our Despair He Turns to Blazing Joy
Think of those disciples on the shore of the Sea of Tiberius. Confused, caught between the old and the new, puzzled by their post-Resurrection meetings with Jesus, fishing in the dark and catching nothing.
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All the Way My Savior Leads Me
If, like me, you do not have a dramatic darkness-to-light name-changing tale, but merely a life nurtured in Christian community and claiming more and more faith for your own as Jesus kept revealing himself to you, you can still take heart from Paul’s story.
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Ride On, King Jesus (Part 2)
Jesus defeated Caesar’s power, but not by anything so obvious as sending an army against him.
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