Depth Perception
Human beings were created for community. As the creation account reminds us, when God said of Adam, “It is not good for the man to be alone” (Genesis 2:18). One of God’s greatest gifts of being human is the gift of the other… We need others to help us rightly see the world around us. Without other perspectives, our view of the world flattens out. Without different perspectives, we lose vital nuance and depth.
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Can You Add a Day? (Part 1)
Jesus asked a pointed question that, if taken literally, could help us understand how to approach life with less worry.
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Leadership Wisdom – You are the Salt of the Earth
How does being “salt” relate to our work of being leaders?
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Leadership Wisdom – The Problem of Persecution (Part 2)
How do we live faithfully in a secular world?
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Leadership Wisdom – The Problem of Persecution (Part 1)
In a fearful and paranoid culture, how do we avoid an unwarranted persecution complex?
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Leadership Wisdom – Becoming Peacemakers
How can the church, which is composed of people from “every tribe and tongue and people and nation,” behave differently?
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Leadership Wisdom – Who You See is Who You’ll Be
What does it mean that the pure in heart will “see God”?
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Leadership Wisdom – Breaking the Cycle
Legitimate moral outrage is easy to foster and enflame. Acting with mercy in light of a world full of injustice is infinitely harder.
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Leadership Wisdom – Hunger and Thirst
Our longing for right relationships (“righteousness”) is fulfilled in the practices of our lives, much like our physical hunger and thirst are fulfilled by eating and drinking.
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Leadership Wisdom – The Dominion of the Meek
Jesus challenges us to a steely commitment to his way of life that is matched with a gentleness in the way we relate to others.
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Leadership Wisdom – Mourning and Restoring What Was Lost
Those who mourn the great loss of humanity’s original potential are promised comfort of several kinds.
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Leadership Wisdom – Vulnerability and Trust
In Jesus’ remarkably vivid description, becoming fully human requires that we acknowledge and embrace our essential poverty of spirit.
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Leadership Wisdom – Resetting Our Expectations
Jesus’ Beatitudes attempt to correct our view of God’s expectations for us as human beings.
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Leadership Wisdom – Who is This Jesus?
Jesus helps us see what that looks like lived out in real life in the middle of broken human communities and a fractured world.
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