Dear Girl, Not Everyone Will Like You

Dear Girl, Not Everyone Will Like You

If you are seeking God and His approval, you will walk in such a way that you need not fear offending those around you. You will walk in the fruits of the Spirit – love, kindness, self-control – that make us more ‘likeable’ in general. But you will not be bound to people-pleasing because you will have pleased the One whose opinion truly matters.

What Attending 300 Funerals Taught Me About Living

What Attending 300 Funerals Taught Me About Living

I remember holding her hand as she took her last breaths on this Earth. She lived to be over 90 years old but her life was one of sorrow and regret.

Leaving her little room in the assisted living center to the care of the nursing staff, I called in her death to the head nurse.

This was a normal day for me since I worked as a hospice chaplain. Another day, another death.

During my time as a chaplain, I’ve had the opportunity of attending over 300 funerals. I’ve witnessed the effect that certain lives have on individuals and communities.

God is Bigger Than Your Doctrine

God is Bigger Than Your Doctrine

The narrowness of my beliefs was safe, comfortable, and secure. I trusted the people I’d read and heard. Their commentary was enough to authorize what I believed, and to question those ideas felt like spiritual treason.

Then I read the Bible for myself.

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