Avoiding the Trap of Gossip
When someone commits an offense against us, our first inclination is to tell other people. We want others to know about our offender’s poor behavior and the injustice we’ve suffered. As a result, there’s a temptation to fall into the trap of gossip. The Bible repeatedly warns about the sins of our mouth. The book […]
Words That Heal
It was my senior year of high school, and I was sitting in Ms. Nelson’s English class. She was handing back papers we’d written on Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter. As she made her way up and down the rows, she paused in front of my desk and squatted down so she could look at […]
Communicating Wisely in a Culture of Outrage
It’s been said, “If two people agree on everything, only one person is thinking.” Disagreements are bound to come, but how we react will influence the outcome. If you spend any time on social media, you’ve undoubtedly witnessed conversations escalate out of control because people tend to say things online that they wouldn’t say in […]
How We Treat the Poor Is An Indicator of our Faith
Bono, the lead singer of U2, said, “To me, a faith in Jesus Christ that is not aligned with the poor…it’s nothing.” From a Scriptural perspective, Bono is onto something. Let me explain what I mean by that. Apart from Christ, we are all spiritually destitute. We brought nothing to our relationship with God but […]