When we stop seeking you, God, we start serving ourselves. I’ve seen it again and again. Person after person marginalizes you. And before long,… Read More »Prayer from Psalm 53: Your Neighbor and Your God
Malcolm Gladwell writes about the 75th precinct in New York.[i] He describes it as “an economically desperate community destined, by most accounts, to get… Read More »Fixing Broken Windows
Lord, I’m angry. These people want me to fail. They complain constantly about me. They stab me in the back again and again. And now I’m… Read More »Prayer from Psalm 35: Revenge
This summer people in the Midwest and Southeast have experienced devastating storms and overwhelming floods. A few days ago I met a man whose family’s trailer was flooded by the Mississippi. Virtually everything they owned was in that trailer and is now gone. Many of us have seen horrific pictures and video on television, computers, and smartphones of the tornadoes that swept through places like Missouri and Alabama. People have perished. Some who survived have nothing. The car they saved up for and one day drove off the lot so proud of was tossed like a toy blocks away. The clothes they shopped for hours to find one weekend were scattered like leaves. The homes they looked for months to purchase are now just bare cement slabs.Read More »Almost Christian: Living with the Wrong Community Chris Altrock – June 19, 2011