I get why people use labels, but that doesn’t make it right to use them. When we label someone, we dehumanize them and absolve ourselves of the need to show them Christ’s love. In Matthew 9:11, the Pharisees tried to avoid having to love others they weren’t comfortable around by labeling them as “tax collectors”…

When you volunteer at church, it’s so much more than simply filling a slot or helping out on a Sunday. Something supernatural happens when the church begins to serve together. Here’s what the Apostle Paul wrote the early church in the letter to the Ephesians: So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists,…

We’ve all had those moments when we wish the earth would open up and swallow us whole: we’ve made a colossal mistake, perhaps one that everyone warned us against but we were sure we could defy the odds. You had your chance, your moment in the sun, and you blew it. For me personally I can’t…

If solving emotional issues was as simple as popping a pill, we all would have been cured years ago. Pills work for some, but usually they mask the symptoms and they don’t deal with the underlying issues. We don’t need another band-aid, we need to go to the very heart of the matter, and that takes us…

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