Life just keeps coming at you, doesn’t it? Sometimes it feels like we live in a constant, raging storm of bad news. A person needs a strategy for…

All the punctuation was added to the Gospels long after the stories and sayings of Jesus were originally written down. So, every comma, exclamation point, question mark, and semi-colon is an interpretative choice. I like to try to…

My opinion has limited worth. It matters, but not all that much. Sometimes when I hear…

I would really like to be perfect, but I am increasingly aware that perfection is not in the cards for me. Life has a pretty solid habit of giving me…

The deepest truth of your life and the life of everybody on the planet is that the fullness of God dwells within you. Therefore…

When you have a problem it is tempting to look for an expert who knows a lot about the thing with which you’re struggling. Sometimes that’s a…

No matter what you think you want, your soul, the deepest, truest part of you, wants God one thousand times more than it wants any created thing…

Jesus loves to answer a question by telling a story. His famous Good Samaritan story is prompted by the question, “Who is my neighbor?” With this story…

Humble people are naturally curious. They have little need to tell you about themselves and their accomplishments, but they are full of wonder about you and your story. They have very little if any concern with being right…

God is sacrificial love. Sacrificial love is love in which the one who loves loses something, sometimes everything, and doesn’t expect it back…

Let’s say we had a common opponent. Hypothetically, of course. What if a group of us had a common opponent?

If you want to know how far you’ve come in letting go of your attachment to what other people think of you, let a…

If you want to know how far you’ve come in letting go of your attachment to what other people think of you, let a false rumor get started about you and see how you react.

My friend William died a few weeks ago just shy of his 80th birthday. William was a quiet, patient man. He used to come by the church and…

Isn’t gossip a funny thing? Gossip is taking strange enjoyment in hearing news about somebody that’s not yours to hear, then…

Humility is simply coming to knowledge of who you are and who you are not, then accepting that self-knowledge, and remembering it. Humble people have…

The Mother’s Day Challenge is an opportunity to participate in a group spiritual practice with other members of Good Shepherd…

“Live the questions.” The poet Rainer Maria Rilke wrote that to a young student who asked him for advice. Here is the full quote…

“No one ever wins a fight.” What do you think about that line? …

I don’t know of a family that doesn’t have some measure of fracture and estrangement in the limbs and leaves of its family tree. If yours doesn’t I hope you know…