How Our Failure Can Foster Friendship
God used an embarrassing moment to remind me of the rewards of being real. There is risk in vulnerability, but deep friendship is impossible without it.
God used an embarrassing moment to remind me of the rewards of being real. There is risk in vulnerability, but deep friendship is impossible without it.
Jesus is our best example of true hospitality (yet without an earthly home). So what does it involve without a house and food and well-planned parties?
Entertaining puts things before people; hospitality puts people before things. Genuine, humble hospitality points guests toward the Gospel. We open our doors and our arms, and say “You are welcome.”
Click here to read the previous posts in this series. Last week, I talked about the necessity of surrounding ourselves with others who can support and encourage and inspire us when we’re struggling to endure. This is a lesson that has taken me many, many years to learn, but oh! How rich the rewards! Some …
Click here to see all the posts in this series. Hebrews 12:1 starts off with “since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses” and leads into “let us run with endurance“. Being surrounded by these witnesses is an important part of being able to run with endurance. The chapter before our passage …