You Are What You Love, James K.A. Smith
Our households—our “little kingdoms”—need to be nourished by constant recentering in the body of Christ. Week after week we bring our little kingdoms into the kingdom of God. Communal, congregational worship locates the family in the sweep of God’s story and in the wider web of the people of God. From there we are sent back into our households and families, where we then have an opportunity to extend the church’s worship into our “little churches.” So let’s think about the liturgies that can frame the places where we eat our daily bread—for in important ways, the formative power of Christian worship is amplified when our daily lives echo and expand those rhythms.
Closer Than Your Next Breath, Susie Larson
We veer off course when we only equate the sensational with the supernatural. Or when we think that signs and wonders can only happen in a hyped-up meeting. Just because we experienced God’s presence a certain way in the past doesn’t mean that’s the only way He’ll reveal Himself to us in the future.
All Who Are Weary, Sarah Hauser
Self-sufficiency is a burden we don’t need to carry. God is the only one who is fully sufficient, and He created us to live in community. He even enabled people in our world to create resources that help us mentally, spiritually, and physically. And we can take Him up on all those offers, because living out the gospel means we can admit our need, ask for help, and accept the generosity of God—in whatever form it comes.
Hiding in the Light, Rifqa Bary
Incredible story.
“Wherever the church has lost this passion and fervor, may stories like mine disturb the cobwebs that limit believers’ faith to a menu selection—when Jesus is truly the feast Himself.”
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