I went for lunch at the Yale with a friend, and we had an incredibly honest conversation, it was amazing to be able to hear honestly about how he was doing. We used to do that quite often, but it had been a while, a I realized how much I missed that.  He had been …

This is hard! Working in the inner-city, I see a lot of things I never would have anywhere else. Every person I see tends to be in some sort of urgent situation that feels like it needs immediate attention. I find myself always attempting to give that attention, and that is tiring, that is a …

I have been on a few mission trips, and I have taken young people on a number of them as well.  I understand that they can be intimidating and scary.  You are headed to a new place, a new culture and you are being asked to connect with the people and try to make a …

I have a friend, let’s call him George. When I first met George, he was always moving, always doing something, and if you spoke with him…you didn’t actually speak, it was impossible. He would not stop talking, or leave any room for you to say anything back. The topics he spoke about were always intense, …

I preached on grace one Sunday, later that week, the guys got together and discussed the idea of grace.  The leader of the discussion said that he talked long, hard and earnestly about how we are imperfect and need so much grace, and how others are the same and need our grace. So at the …

I was sitting down at the Youth in the Kitchen event and was chatting with my table about life and such and it came up that I had a fire at my house about 1 year earlier.  “Jennifer”, who had not been really engaged in the conversation all of the sudden perked up.  “You had …