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I sometimes wonder if people on this platform spew extreme ideology not b/c they really believe it, but b/c they are chasing a following. Which in some ways is even worse.

A hugely present but largely unspoken reality is that Christian leaders use ministry as a means of self-actualization. This doesn’t necessarily get exposed as a problem unless it leads to burnout or scandal, but it can steal our souls even without those things.

This is one reason we need more people doing the work that chuck degroat and others have championed.

Moses was 40 before he embraced his calling. Then he spent the next 40 years in obscurity getting ready to fulfill it. If you’re rushing or anxious, remember that.

This should go without saying, but murdering ideological opponents (or anyone, for that matter) is the opposite of upholding the pro-life cause.

So encouraged by Peter’s raising of Tabitha in Acts 9 this am. It’s a replica of what he saw Jesus do for Talitha in Mark 5, right down to the rhyming names. Ministry isn’t rocket science, it’s simple imitation. We repeat the motions He taught us, entrusting the results to God.

In western NC where I live, there are a lot of Baptist churches. And those churches have been very busy helping their neighbors in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene. I am grateful for their faithfulness to be Jesus’ hands & feet in a truly grimy situation! #ecumenicalmonday

"The New Testament provides no indication that the apostolic church had a strategy based on the premise that church planing would be "more effective" if carried on w/in each separate homogenous unity &...conducted along racial or social lines." Rene Padilla of Langham Partnership

Today, a group of Baptists partnered with some Anglicans to host a housewarming party for two Catholic families whose homes they helped rebuild after Helene. Half speak English, half speak Spanish. All were strangers to e/o before the flood. Now they’re family.

Why being in touch with the land keeps us fully human: “When everything else has gone from my brain…what will be left, I believe, is topology: the dreaming memory of land as it lay this way and that.” — Annie Dillard, “An American Childhood” wdavidotaylor.substack.com/p/staying-pres…

Mom life lately, and probably all life, seems to mean increasingly reading ads about how someone's life/parenting/health was horrible until they discovered X supplement/mushroom brew. If there was ever a toxic empathy, these adverts might be wielding it.

Anyone who thinks youth ministry is “junior” ministry hasn’t talked to many teenagers.

An #ecumenicalmonday reflection: we don't have to understand each other's traditions-- or even each other's language-- to see and serve Christ in each other.

Reading the Chronicles of Narnia with my kids, I’m tempted to say “kids don’t win battles in real life.” But actually, the small & weak will shame the wise. They already have: a poor girl from Nazareth & her homeless son disarmed principalities & powers.

Undone over this flash flood tragedy at Camp Mystic girls camp in the Texas hill country. Please pray with me for these beloved children, the families of those confirmed lost and traumatized kids & camp workers. Praying with all my heart for miraculous rescues to still be ahead.

No death is ever “timely.” But in the case of the precious children at Camp Mystic who have died because of the devastating floods, their deaths are so very untimely and heartbreakingly painful. It’s for them that we pray this prayer on behalf of their parents.

Lord, bless these little ones and hold them & their families close to you.

Thks to those who preordered this weekend, my book is the #1 new release in the “sacraments” section of Amazon— AKA most niche book category in the internet 😆 But to me this is as exciting as when I won a writing contest in 2nd grade. Thanks, friends, for supporting me!