Engaging With “Unsaved” Family and Friends

pfahlercommakatelyn asked a question:

How do you deal with your mother and other people not being saved? Do you have any hope for them?

Hey dear friend, I have a ton of hope for my family.  I have a ton of hope for everyone else in my life who doesn’t know Christ.

I understand two simple things.

1) They have a completely different worldview than me, and I need to adjust my dials for them — not in a way that compromises my faith, but in a way that shows grace. I don’t ever force them to bend to me.

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Please Pray For The People of Nigeria


Over 2000 have been massacred. Please pray for the people of Nigeria, whom the media has apparently forgotten entirely.

[Photo from Lecrae ]

— J.S.


God’s Love So Ruins Us.


Art by kristen-louise, from my sermon on Zacchaeus here.

— J.S.