Why is Befriending Your Neighbor a Step of Faith?

As the moms in my neighborhood grew in friendship and were meeting together regularly, my heart also was yearning for more time in prayer with others. I wondered if anyone in the neighborhood felt the same way. A couple of the moms coming to our Friday play date were Christians, and were connected to local […]

As we mamas were meeting together regularly, we were telling stories about our families, and about our husbands, and we were wondering what would it take for the daddies to reach out to one another. After some weeks of wondering about this, we decided to put together family events, so that the Daddies could meet […]

When the religious authorities asked Jesus to reduce everything in the Bible into one command, He answered with two. The first is to love God with everything you have. The second, He said, is to love your neighbor as yourself. What if He meant that we should love our actual neighbors? You know, the people […]

I’ll never forget the day my husband shared a simple idea with me. It’s an idea that changed the way I thought about taking steps of faith with the people in my life. “What if you stopped doing things for people and did things with people?” he asked. That single question revolutionized what loving my […]

When I had my first child, I was able to take a 4 month maternity leave from work. I was so excited. And then all of the sudden, I realized that I had no idea where the next nearest baby was to me physically, in my neighborhood. I didn’t know my neighbors, but here I […]