Living in a culture of excess numbs me to the God who provides needs.
Which makes me want to live a new way… a way that would lead myself and those around me into deeper relationship with this God who meets needs.
And I’m starting to figure out what that looks like.
I have trouble understanding a God who meets the needs of his people because the entire context of my life is built upon excess.
Having access only to what I need feels insufficient because I’m used to having so much more.
How about you?
Could you live with shelter that was simply sufficient? [...]
You have enormous potential.
Of course, if we don’t believe that, it doesn’t really matter.
And if we spend our lives on ourselves, we’ll never experience it.
Because God created us to live connected to one another. And the height of our potential is only reached when we’re engaged with each [...]
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