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If you have a Christian friend who loves you enough to “wound” you with loving truth, hang on to them. They are treasures. But how, in this politically correct world we’re called to love in (yes, love wasn’t a typo), are we supposed to approach skeptical people?

I live in Los Angeles, well technically Pasadena. BUT, if you want to drive to LA from my house at 3 a.m., you could be in the heart of downtown in 15 minutes because there wouldn’t be traffic! There are people everywhere! When our family moved here almost two years ago to plant a church....

You can probably finish this in your head, “With friends like Job’s… who needs enemies...”

This type of thing doesn’t happen often, and it really shouldn’t because life and “stuff” happens bright and early and late into the night around here. However, it warmed my heart when my husband delivered this tray to me in bed, one recent Saturday morning, after an especially busy week.

Trials- no one I know is begging for one, but they seem to be the one thing that cause us to draw close to the Lord. They humble us. They can be big or small; but if they are happening to us, they always seem big-- at least at the moment.

Bridges are so perfect. They keep us from being contained in whatever place we find ourselves. They can be built by anyone, but we alone have to trust them to cross them.

When we read the Christmas story, we have this sense that Mary was stepping into this romanticized role of abundant blessings. After all, we know the happy ending of the Christmas story and ultimately the fact that it met the biggest need in our life. Hey, Joseph doesn’t leave her. No one stones her. The Bible doesn’t tell us anyone ridiculed her for claiming to be pregnant because she was carrying God in the Flesh.