Empathy vs Sympathy
Sympathy allows us to say/know the right thing about a situation and then do nothing- or even worse, make decisions that worsen the situation- all the while, keeping struggles at arm’s length.
Practice Makes Progress, Jesus Makes Perfect
So here it is again, a new year-January, 2023. And with the new year all of us are faced with that daunting task of trying to make this a better year than the previous one both for ourselves and for those around us. That usually entails something like New Year’s resolutions. We know they are needed, we know we probably won’t keep them and yet we keep making them. So what is the problem? Is it that we make poor resolutions or that we are just pitiful people and cannot do the right thing no matter how hard we try?
Kicking off a New Year with the Bible
The new year is a great time to commit yourself to spiritual disciplines, and one of the most important disciplines of the Christian life is reading the Bible. We encounter the Bible when we go to church, and attending public worship is itself a key Christian discipline. Private reading, however, is edifying in its own way; and that’s what I want to talk about here.
Hope For The New Year
A friend asked me today – is there any hope for our world? My answer seemed to both comfort and frustrate her.