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Today’s Reflection I AM CALLED to offer all that I am — my time and my talent, my work and my worship, my resources and my rituals — offer it all up to be broken and shared and given away and counted as but loss for the sake of the Christ. It is incumbent upon […]

Today’s Reflection GOD, THE WORLD SEEMS CRAZY RIGHT NOW.It’s frightening how many things are going wrong:wars, natural disasters, economic crises.We see suffering all around.I worry for my friends and family,for our safety, for job security.I worry about our earth, what is going to happen next.Help me remember that you are present in everycircumstance, with […]

Today’s Reflection WAITING MAY BE one of the most maddening and difficult moral and psychological challenges life presents. When all we can do is wait, we feel consigned to passivity, uncertainty, and powerlessness. To wait for housing or food or water or a blanket for a shivering child may rightly inspire outrage, not patience. And […]

Today’s Reflection PRAYING THE SINNER’S PRAYER is not the end goal of the Christian life. Praying one prayer, or having one experience of God’s grace, is not the fullness of what God hopes for us. Please don’t misunderstand me: having an initial experience of God’s grace by faith is absolutely essential, but it does not […]

Today’s Reflection THE CHRISTIAN FAITH teaches that God wants to save us when we are at our worst. God loves us still. God is not ignorant of our sin; God sees it more devastatingly than we do. But God loves each one of us and sees someone whom God wants to redeem and make new. […]