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Letting the other side limit your options in dialogue will turn dialogue into debate. The answer to either/or may be neither or both. Look for artificial boundaries and cross them.

The problem with treating a church as a business is that the church’s mission is not popularity or notoriety, nor does it sell a product.

Plugging one hole in a sieve doesn’t make the sieve watertight.

Etsy (yes, I get their emails) sent me an email offering me the option of opting out of Valentine’s Day emails, lest they bother me.

When reading the Bible, apply your interpretations to yourself before proclaiming anything to others. Speak from a position of self awareness, not superiority.

Beware of the clamor of the crowd, even–or especially when they claim a divine mandate. Read 1 Kings 22:1-40 as an example.

… how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to worship the living God! Hebrews 9:14 (NRSV, emphasis mine)

We tend to remember snippets of scripture that we want to be true while forgetting those we don’t like and ignoring the story that underlies both.

What the world needs now is stuff, more stuff. That’s the only thing that there’s just too little of.

While the overarching story is about the Divine choice of a king for Israel, the details of the story of Saul and David in 1 Samuel present David as simply the better warrior, tactician, strategist, and politician.

The first key to recognizing and effectively using spiritual gifts in your church is to recognize that all God’s children are gifted by God. Nobody is excluded. Nobody is elite.

While everything is a gift, we are, in fact, gifted. Every one of us.