When it comes to nudging our friends towards Jesus, many of us try to negotiate a perilous tightrope walk. Full of fear and excitement, we slowly balance on the cable trying to avoid the pitfalls of complacency on one side and relationship destroying aggressiveness on...
The question that’s been on my heart and mind lately is this: When does familiarity breed intimacy? In my last post, I expressed my disagreement with the common saying, “familiarity breeds contempt.” and how to watch for the true roots of contempt in our...
Aesop said, “Familiarity breeds contempt.” I think Aesop is wrong. If contempt is to be understood as some form of disdain, scorn, or treating something as worthless or unwanted, then familiarity alone can’t breed contempt. As familiar as I am with them, I’ve have...
“I can’t believe he stood me up,” I muttered to myself. After all these years of weekly coffee why would my friend not show up for our regular Thursday afternoon coffee? Dale and I were kindred spirits. Once a week we would commune to drink warm coffee, share our...
I taught an entire 10th grade Bible class with my zipper down. One night I said, “Good night,” to my wife when she still had fresh tears in her eyes from our discussion. I met with a friend who I thought might be suicidal and told them to, “call me if you need...
