Posts from September 2021

There’s a lot of bad news swirling around the Christian church today. Maybe it’s always been that way.  This was certainly the case in the Apostle Paul’s day. In nearly every letter her writes he addresses some kind of challenge against – or within – the church. Apparently it’s a constant: lots of really challenging societal issues to navigate and political realities to figure out and cultural differences right in the church… In other words, it’s always been a challenge…

Perhaps the most important paradigm shift that you and I need to make in our default way of thinking in order for our thinking to be converted to a Christian way of thinking is shifting to thinking of joy as something that can exist IN THE MIDST of suffering, not after it.  Basically it’s the shift from either/or thinking to both/and.   It’s easy to think, “when the anxiety is over, then I’ll experience joy.” Or “when the suffering is…