Gideon was a quietly faithful man. He kept his nose clean, honored God privately, and tried not to upset the status quo. His life was fine, if not great. But God had victories in mind for Gideon, and showed him what it looked like to truly rely on...

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Commitment is limiting, it means you’re saying no to all the other good options out there. For this reason, committing to another person can be downright scary. But committing to someone for life, that can be so terrifying that we’ll only think of...

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In life we long for a sense of control and autonomy (power). But relationships can only thrive where there is mutual dependency and vulnerability. These opposite pulls cause a very unhealthy relationship with power (unilateral action, patriarchy, the...

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The most costly part of doing relationships is the requirement of continual, undeserved, complete forgiveness. While we may fear letting the other person off the hook and enabling hurtful or even abuse behavior, the other extreme is to be hard hearted...

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When we embark on new relationships, we bring along hopes, dreams, baggage from previous relationships, fears and insecurities with us. We also bring a truckload of expectations. While some expectations are good, many of them (1) go unexpressed (why...

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People are gregarious by nature—we’re created for relationships. And while relationships are good, fulfilling, and transformative they’re also really difficult, perhaps the MOST difficult part of life. As a result some of us have said, “No thank you!”...

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Instead of seeing people who have differing views and experiences (even related to God and the Bible) as threats to our values, stability, or way of life, Jesus teaches us to see them as gifts. In the Body of Christ, we are called to see the challenge...

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The divides that exist in our world seem so deep and wide that it’s easy to assume they are inevitable and unfixable. Even Jesus tells us “The poor you’ll always have with you,” So doesn’t that mean it’s naïve to hope for anything better? No. Jesus...

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One of the other barriers that prevents us from coming together, even after we’ve gotten near and freed people from their scripts, is the belief that faithfulness requires us to take stances for what we believe is right and true. But, Jesus had a...

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We all wear labels. Worse, each of those labels come along with a fully written script for a part we are expected to play. Jesus, however, sees people not labels. People who are free to pursue the unique path he’s got for them. When we live like Jesus...

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