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Friday Feb 05, 2021
Friday Feb 05, 2021
We all need a brain to pick, an ear to bend, a nudge, a poke, a push, or even a loving shove from someone we genuinely trust. We all need close confidants with whom we can share important matters, our deepest longings, our personal struggles. We all need someone who’s been there, or someone who’s going there with us, or someone who’s willing to go to the ends of the earth on our behalf.
We might call such people “The Indispensables”—the ones we simply can’t live without.
Humans are not designed to go it alone. We never were. We never will be. But that doesn’t stop most of us from trying. Over the last forty years, a growing percentage of U.S. Americans report having shrinking networks and fewer relationships. Today, the average U.S. American has only one close confidant, down from 2.94 in the mid-1980’s. It’s no coincidence that, over this same period, we’ve become the loneliest generation in American history.
As we begin a new year, you’re invited on a quest to name and claim the handful of people whom you can’t live without: to commit to making time for them in your life; to invest your energies in cultivating relationships with them; to seek out their wisdom; to learn from them; to confide in them; to invite them into your story and alongside you on your journey.
On this quest, you’re also invited to consider those in your life who just might see in you the kind of person that they can’t live without. They might not know it yet. They might never say it. But it’s possible that they’re waiting for you to make time for them in your life; to invest your energies in cultivating a relationship with them; to share your wisdom, your story, or simply your hand on the journey of life.
The truth is that humans need more than one close confidant. We need a dream team of people who each bring different gifts, perspectives, experiences and commitments to offer. In this series, we’ll look at the six types of people who can make all the difference both in our personal lives and in our professional lives.
Who are the indispensables in your life? For whom might you be one?
Friday Feb 05, 2021
Friday Feb 05, 2021
We all need a brain to pick, an ear to bend, a nudge, a poke, a push, or even a loving shove from someone we genuinely trust. We all need close confidants with whom we can share important matters, our deepest longings, our personal struggles. We all need someone who’s been there, or someone who’s going there with us, or someone who’s willing to go to the ends of the earth on our behalf.
We might call such people “The Indispensables”—the ones we simply can’t live without.
Humans are not designed to go it alone. We never were. We never will be. But that doesn’t stop most of us from trying. Over the last forty years, a growing percentage of U.S. Americans report having shrinking networks and fewer relationships. Today, the average U.S. American has only one close confidant, down from 2.94 in the mid-1980’s. It’s no coincidence that, over this same period, we’ve become the loneliest generation in American history.
As we begin a new year, you’re invited on a quest to name and claim the handful of people whom you can’t live without: to commit to making time for them in your life; to invest your energies in cultivating relationships with them; to seek out their wisdom; to learn from them; to confide in them; to invite them into your story and alongside you on your journey.
On this quest, you’re also invited to consider those in your life who just might see in you the kind of person that they can’t live without. They might not know it yet. They might never say it. But it’s possible that they’re waiting for you to make time for them in your life; to invest your energies in cultivating a relationship with them; to share your wisdom, your story, or simply your hand on the journey of life.
The truth is that humans need more than one close confidant. We need a dream team of people who each bring different gifts, perspectives, experiences and commitments to offer. In this series, we’ll look at the six types of people who can make all the difference both in our personal lives and in our professional lives.
Who are the indispensables in your life? For whom might you be one?
Friday Feb 05, 2021
Friday Feb 05, 2021
Friday Feb 05, 2021
To be human is to look at our broken, warring world and wonder if we are all alone, if help will ever come, if we can hope for a future in which love reigns and life triumphs and peace prevails on earth.
Our timeless quest for such a world has sent us on pilgrimages to mountain sages and desert monks in search of divine wisdom, to sacred spaces and thin places in search of revelations and epiphanies, and even to the furthest reaches of the universe in search of our earliest origins and our ultimate destiny.
Yet, after all our yearning and seeking, we still haven’t found what we’re looking and longing for. That’s because, in the end, despite all our searching, it’s not we who find God, but God who finds us.
At Christmas, love finally comes down—to kindle our faith, to comfort our pain, to consecrate our lives, to call us by name and sanctify our hearts and minds for the healing and redemption of a broken world.
This is the mystery of the Incarnation at Christmas. This is the end of all our searching. The God we’ve been longing for is the God who has been longing for us all along. In Christ, love comes down at last, God is with us, and even the mountains tremble at the wonders God will show us.
Friday Feb 05, 2021
Friday Feb 05, 2021
To be human is to look at our broken, warring world and wonder if we are all alone, if help will ever come, if we can hope for a future in which love reigns and life triumphs and peace prevails on earth.
Our timeless quest for such a world has sent us on pilgrimages to mountain sages and desert monks in search of divine wisdom, to sacred spaces and thin places in search of revelations and epiphanies, and even to the furthest reaches of the universe in search of our earliest origins and our ultimate destiny.
Yet, after all our yearning and seeking, we still haven’t found what we’re looking and longing for. That’s because, in the end, despite all our searching, it’s not we who find God, but God who finds us.
At Christmas, love finally comes down—to kindle our faith, to comfort our pain, to consecrate our lives, to call us by name and sanctify our hearts and minds for the healing and redemption of a broken world.
This is the mystery of the Incarnation at Christmas. This is the end of all our searching. The God we’ve been longing for is the God who has been longing for us all along. In Christ, love comes down at last, God is with us, and even the mountains tremble at the wonders God will show us.
Friday Feb 05, 2021
Friday Feb 05, 2021
To be human is to look at our broken, warring world and wonder if we are all alone, if help will ever come, if we can hope for a future in which love reigns and life triumphs and peace prevails on earth.
Our timeless quest for such a world has sent us on pilgrimages to mountain sages and desert monks in search of divine wisdom, to sacred spaces and thin places in search of revelations and epiphanies, and even to the furthest reaches of the universe in search of our earliest origins and our ultimate destiny.
Yet, after all our yearning and seeking, we still haven’t found what we’re looking and longing for. That’s because, in the end, despite all our searching, it’s not we who find God, but God who finds us.
At Christmas, love finally comes down—to kindle our faith, to comfort our pain, to consecrate our lives, to call us by name and sanctify our hearts and minds for the healing and redemption of a broken world.
This is the mystery of the Incarnation at Christmas. This is the end of all our searching. The God we’ve been longing for is the God who has been longing for us all along. In Christ, love comes down at last, God is with us, and even the mountains tremble at the wonders God will show us.
Friday Feb 05, 2021
Friday Feb 05, 2021
To be human is to look at our broken, warring world and wonder if we are all alone, if help will ever come, if we can hope for a future in which love reigns and life triumphs and peace prevails on earth.
Our timeless quest for such a world has sent us on pilgrimages to mountain sages and desert monks in search of divine wisdom, to sacred spaces and thin places in search of revelations and epiphanies, and even to the furthest reaches of the universe in search of our earliest origins and our ultimate destiny.
Yet, after all our yearning and seeking, we still haven’t found what we’re looking and longing for. That’s because, in the end, despite all our searching, it’s not we who find God, but God who finds us.
At Christmas, love finally comes down—to kindle our faith, to comfort our pain, to consecrate our lives, to call us by name and sanctify our hearts and minds for the healing and redemption of a broken world.
This is the mystery of the Incarnation at Christmas. This is the end of all our searching. The God we’ve been longing for is the God who has been longing for us all along. In Christ, love comes down at last, God is with us, and even the mountains tremble at the wonders God will show us.
Sunday Dec 06, 2020
Sunday Dec 06, 2020
To be human is to look at our broken, warring world and wonder if we are all alone, if help will ever come, if we can hope for a future in which love reigns and life triumphs and peace prevails on earth.
Our timeless quest for such a world has sent us on pilgrimages to mountain sages and desert monks in search of divine wisdom, to sacred spaces and thin places in search of revelations and epiphanies, and even to the furthest reaches of the universe in search of our earliest origins and our ultimate destiny.
Yet, after all our yearning and seeking, we still haven’t found what we’re looking and longing for. That’s because, in the end, despite all our searching, it’s not we who find God, but God who finds us.
At Christmas, love finally comes down—to kindle our faith, to comfort our pain, to consecrate our lives, to call us by name and sanctify our hearts and minds for the healing and redemption of a broken world.
This is the mystery of the Incarnation at Christmas. This is the end of all our searching. The God we’ve been longing for is the God who has been longing for us all along. In Christ, love comes down at last, God is with us, and even the mountains tremble at the wonders God will show us.
Thursday Dec 03, 2020
Thursday Dec 03, 2020
To be human is to look at our broken, warring world and wonder if we are all alone, if help will ever come, if we can hope for a future in which love reigns and life triumphs and peace prevails on earth.
Our timeless quest for such a world has sent us on pilgrimages to mountain sages and desert monks in search of divine wisdom, to sacred spaces and thin places in search of revelations and epiphanies, and even to the furthest reaches of the universe in search of our earliest origins and our ultimate destiny.
Yet, after all our yearning and seeking, we still haven’t found what we’re looking and longing for. That’s because, in the end, despite all our searching, it’s not we who find God, but God who finds us.
At Christmas, love finally comes down—to kindle our faith, to comfort our pain, to consecrate our lives, to call us by name and sanctify our hearts and minds for the healing and redemption of a broken world.
This is the mystery of the Incarnation at Christmas. This is the end of all our searching. The God we’ve been longing for is the God who has been longing for us all along. In Christ, love comes down at last, God is with us, and even the mountains tremble at the wonders God will show us.
Thursday Dec 03, 2020
Thursday Dec 03, 2020
Jesus had a lot to say about the “Kingdom of God.” In the New Testament the “Kingdom of God” is mentioned more than 80 times. For many of us, when we hear of kingdoms we think of royal thrones, power structures, political statecraft, spies, armies and weaponry. In this world, kingdoms rise and kingdoms fall, and how long they endure depends largely on how effective they are in defending themselves from enemies both within and without.
But Jesus understood the “Kingdom of God” as a community in which the guiding ideal and animating spirit is divine compassion. In this Kingdom, people take care of each other, trust one another, share with one another, forgive one another, and even love their enemies. In this Kingdom, God is sovereign but rules with persuasive love rather than coercion; love transcends and heals every social division; genuine peace rules every relationship; and all of creation, both human and non-human forms, has intrinsic value as an essential part of the web of life.
For Jesus, there was a sense of urgency about living the Kingdom life. It was Israel’s only hope against the powers of the Roman Empire. And Jesus was so convinced of this, and so committed to living this Kingdom life, that he put his own life on the line to fulfill it.
In these highly polarizing times, the Kingdom life is our only hope for healing and unity. Join us for this important series as we explore together what it means to commit ourselves to Kingdom living.