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Who is Tasting Your Stew?
Dr. Mark Bailey, former president of Dallas Theological Seminary, spoke of the need for accountability in the Christian life. "It's like making a stew…" he began to illustrate. “Each of us has our own recipe. We add a little here. We add a little there. We season the stew to our liking. We get ahead of ourselves and think our stew is good. The problem is we haven’t exposed it to the opinions of others.” He closed his illustration by claiming you have to have someone close enough to smell and taste your stew—even more so, someone who won’t lie about it! Life, like cooking, has never been an exact…
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Weathering Storms in the Company of Others
Whether it is a torrential downpour with winds akin to the pre-hurricane and advancing tornado furry or a personal storm: be it health, soul or relational it is not easy to endure storms alone. Being with others in the midst is strangely comforting even when the outcome is uncertain. The sight of cows huddled together during a storm is an instructive image. Somehow they innately sense how to respond and do what might help them survive.The first time I saw a group of cows bunched together at the corner of a field, we were driving through a severe thunderstorm. The image of those cows became imprinted on my mind. I…
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Authentic Relationships: Loving One Another
To love another person is to see the face of God” – Les Misérables Dear friends, if God so loved us, then we also ought to love one another. No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God resides in us, and his love is perfected in us. (1 John 4:11-12 NET) Our loving others may be the only “face of God” that they ever see. (John 13:34,35)
