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Honest — the rewards we seek and the company we keep
The challenge for most of us isn’t that we lack the ability to do the right thing. It’s that we’re incentivized to not do it.
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Not everyone believes what they say
In civil debate, we worry about not taking the other person seriously enough. But sometimes they use that generosity against us.
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Night time as the right time
Jesus’s encounter with Nicodemus is a story rich with possibility, value-judgment, and expectations. Reading it that way helps.
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What we don’t talk about reveals us anyway
Being honest and sharing our feelings isn’t easy. But we’re deceiving ourselves if we think we can avoid the truth.
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To Love Bravely
We avoid the truth to protect each other. What we’re actually protecting is dishonesty and the enemies of love.
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change and resistance
I’m constantly hearing how people hate change for the sake of change. So why do we let our resistance to change off that same hook? While we often talk about not wanting change for the sake of change, we never talk about resistance to change for the sake of resistance. If we’re being intellectually honest…
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Who can listen to it?
At the end of the Bread of Life discourse in John 6, his disciples abandon him. Not because the road is hard, but because Jesus told them the truth. We want to be more effective. Jesus would rather be honest. Proper 16B | John 6:56-69 You’ve heard of reverse psychology. It’s a simple idea that…
