This parable will help us understand what it feels like to be lost and how God responds to that feeling by always trying to bring us home.
One of the defining crises of midlife is refusing to admit the truth to ourselves that we’re getting older.”
Everyone can become a spiritual leader, but it begins with the decision to allow God to make you into one.
When we are insecure, it can be easy to feel like we are a “nobody going nowhere.”
With insecurity, God never responds with criticism. He responds with a purpose to live for something beyond themselves.
There are many things that aim to undermine our faith: our guilt, different diagnoses, depression, anxiety, fear, and various circumstances. God wants to build our faith and confidence to be so strong it can handle anything thrown our way.
We are living in a time of fear-inducing chaos, when darkness is rising. We must embrace our responsibility to God and our neighbors to bring the light.