I straighten the stocking on it’s fireplace hook and take a step back to evaluate my work. Something about the way the loop is sewn to the stocking itself makes it resistant to my every attempt to help it hand plumb, and I concede that it is good enough. Decorating for Christmas is a bit
Last Sunday was the first Sunday evening meeting for Trinity Church Greenville, the church plant Austin and I are grateful to serve. I had great visions of how our first meeting would go, how prepared I would be, how ordered all the details would look. Particularly, I was excited to be baking a loaf of
I love good food. I love small plates of fine foods and big bowls of pasta. I love the unctuousness of quality EVOO, the richness of salted butter on homemade bread, the cold familiarity of ripe watermelon, and the bite of lime squeezed over a taco. I love food. But … though this doesn’t happen
Here is something that I want myself to know (and, you too if you need the reminder): our worth is more than our work. Our world tells us again and again to do more so that we can BE more. We should work harder and faster and produce more good things (necessary or not) so
I’m not an avid shopper, so it caught me off guard this afternoon when I found myself spontaneously pulling into the TJ Maxx parking lot. I was in a need of a few new work shirt (for this brutal eastern NC humidity), and before I knew it I was in the fitting room with a
Things are about to get real for a moment. You’ve seen the pictures before. Those tiny, filtered, styled little squares that give you a “glimpse” into someone else’s world. They seem so ideal, so picturesque with their Bible and coffee mug and fresh-cut flowers. They seem like they have it all together – the little
READ Luke 23:13-35 The angel has proclaimed that Christ is risen, but how can the disciples be sure? How can they believe this news without seeing it with their own eyes? And even if they did believe without seeing Him, what were they to do now? Jesus meets them as they are walking on the
READ Luke 24:1-12 In the earliest hours of the morning, the friends made their way to the tomb. Clutching the spices that would preserve the body of their Friend (and ward off the stench of death), they moved persistently towards the burial-place. I imagine their feet stepped with heaviness, and their hearts were fit to
READ Luke 23:50-56 Joseph is an average man. We’re not told much about him, but the text gives us a few insights into who he is. What does the text tell us about Joseph? Amidst the factual information we’re given about Joseph, we are told two astonishing things. First, he did not consent to the