Yesterday, we decorated the house for Christmas. I washed the big things that had been on the counter for days. I cleaned the microwave and stovetop for the first time in a while. I knitted for 15-20 minutes. I read some books with my kids. I made dinner. We worked on all the kids’...
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Engage Faith: Almost Empty
Our church runs the sound system from an iPad. Mostly Mike does it, but when he’s not there Pastor Geoff does. But yesterday, Eric ended up with it. It was an unusual service, one our church calls “multi-voice.” Which basically means that multiple people share about a topic or give a testimony. And yesterday,...
Contempt
I was sitting with my family in the studio waiting for our portrait sitting. Everything was running late and I had to be somewhere in barely an hour. The room was filled with people, and I silently blamed all of them as I watched the clock hands creep toward my deadline. I tried to...
Engage Your Mind: Of Babies and Bathwater
It takes a lot of skill to hear an idea or argument without immediately falling into the trap of extremes. Especially in the Christian world, but not less often in the secular one, discussions quickly disintegrate into name-calling and trolling or universally glowing commendation. “You’re an idiot for thinking that. Everything you type is...
Engage Life: Create Good Today
This morning, I read this point near the end of Dallas Willard’s book Knowing Christ Today: “Life is primarily devoted to work. All legitimate work is devoted to the creation of value, of what is good to a lesser or greater degree. That was God’s plan. He not only creates; he creates creators–you and...