JKBa day ago3 minIntroducing: The Mask Generation!My recent COVID conversations have evolved from “I wonder how the pandemic will impact jobs, church engagement, real estate, the economy,...
JKBDec 31, 20202 minHappy New Year and Good Riddance, amirite?January 1 always promises, if only superstitiously, that "old is gone, new has come" in some unique way. With the year we've all just had...
JKBDec 17, 20202 minLament your way through ChristmasLament realizes that we won't always see what we're becoming and what God's doing because we wouldn't have wanted it to happen this way.
JKBDec 3, 20202 minWhen COVID Hits HomeSeveral months ago, Katie (my wife) tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 (commonly known as COVID-19). She self-quarantined in our home, experi...
JKBMay 26, 20203 minThe Efficiency of JoyA key indicator of health is how difficult it is to make you happy.
JKBApr 25, 20203 minWhat face masks can't protect us fromWe might need added precautions— not against COVID-19— but another sinister condition. Some are dangerously susceptible to "Soundstupiditus"
JKBMar 30, 20204 minYou Have to Change What You Believe About Stress.Whatever level of stress you have, it’s actually not embedded in a feeling, it’s a belief that you’re living out.
JKBDec 24, 20193 minDECEMBER 24: Who's it for?Oddly, the promise of personal peace to came people who had no hope of earning it.
JKBDec 23, 20192 minDECEMBER 23: A festival for the rest of us!Want more this year. Introduce habits that not only protest excess, but tell your soul that God’s “with“ness is the real joy of the season.
JKBDec 22, 20192 minDECEMBER 22: Don't be so sureIt’s possible that bad things and good things are just steps to best things.
JKBDec 21, 20192 minDECEMBER 21: The real face(s) of joySometimes, joy will look like dancing and laughing and skipping. Sometimes, joy will look like tears or gritted teeth or nerves.
JKBDec 20, 20193 minDECEMBER 20: Both/AndFollowing Jesus doesn’t mean you won’t lose your job, you won’t lose your health, you won’t lose your marriage, you won’t struggle. Still...
JKBDec 19, 20193 minDECEMBER 19: When all your wishes come trueGod’s joy is something placed within reach of every person. Barren or not. Single or not. Divorced or not. Poor or not. Harmed or not.
JKBDec 18, 20192 minDECEMBER 18: All the feelsIf asked, “Why don’t you live for fame or power or sex or money or stability?” they would probably say something like, “We just want MORE."
JKBDec 17, 20192 minDECEMBER 17: Be a maker.Though you have a God-like desire to see a world at peace, don’t burden yourself with the God-sized expectation that you must do it all.
JKBDec 16, 20192 minDECEMBER 16: You only give what you have.Create the peace you have—and, if you have the deep peace of a relationship with God, do not stop short of giving it to someone this season.
JKBDec 15, 20192 minDECEMBER 15: The unavoidable price of peace.Yes, we have been led to war. We have been led to division. So somebody has to lead us to peace.
JKBDec 14, 20192 minDECEMBER 14: Real peace is personal.It may’ve never occurred to you that your deepest need for peace is a deep need for a Person.
JKBDec 13, 20192 minDECEMBER 13: Peaces fixes something.True peace never ignores any interpersonal problem. It’s achieved by running toward what keeps to people apart.
JKBDec 12, 20192 minDECEMBER 12: Making peace > keeping peaceA peace-keeping world's actually a world of a certain violence. It’s smiles, hugs & handshakes, but it buries what makes us most passionate.