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Merry Christmas!
The next era of church leadership will not be built by experts
but by people who have suffered,
who know how to stay present in pain,
who can hold space without fixing.
Wounded healers aren’t a liability.
Wounded healers are the future.
Strength isn’t the absence of weakness.
Strength is refusing to hide your weakness
because you know it’s the place others will find permission to breathe.
Your vulnerability may be someone’s lifeline.
“The Word of God is Jesus Christ. I believe that the Word of God is inspired, infallible, and inerrant. And when he was about eighteen years old, he grew a beard.”
— A More Christlike Word: Reading Scripture the Emmaus Way by @bradleyjersak.bsky.social
Jesus doesn’t correct God’s character.
Jesus corrects our imagination of God’s character.
The incarnation is God saying:
“You’ve misunderstood Me. Let Me show you My face.”
Shame may scare us into behavior change,
but it never forms Christ in us.
Only love transforms.
Only love roots us in who we really are.
Jesus doesn’t say “change, then you’re loved.”
He says, “You’re loved — now walk with me.”
Transformation is downstream from belovedness.
Always.
We’ve misunderstood spiritual warfare by turning it into spectacle.
But Jesus reveals its true shape:
Washing feet
Forgiving sinners
Touching lepers
Blessing children
Welcoming outsiders
Love is how evil loses its power.
Before the blind see,
Before the lame walk,
Before the dead rise,
Jesus does something even more miraculous —
He gives people a place at the table.
Belonging isn’t the result of healing.
Belonging is where healing begins.
God doesn’t erase your wounds.
God transforms them into signs of solidarity.
Even Jesus kept his scars.
Some days, it feels like I’m still holding my breath—waiting, wondering if the Spirit will show up.
Pentecost reminds us: She does. Even here. Even now.
A centering prayer for weary hearts:
For When You’re Still Holding Your Breath
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The four horsemen aren’t waiting for the end.
They’ve always been riding.
Revelation reveals the truth about now—
And invites us to live another way.
🕊️ Read: When the Four Horsemen Ride (And They Always Do) tinyurl.com/2t39yam6
