“How long this world will suffer, how long I will suffer… Do you hear my cries? Do you know the brokenness?”...

I don’t have to deny or hide my weakness because the beauty of them is they point to a God who promises to make me new....

As broken as this earthly existence can be, there are eternal promises that break through and transcend the brokenness....

The economic concerns of the open home have a trust, achieved by the work of Jesus. We can risk. We can have an open door. We can live in these costly places where a greater number of people are welcomed, and where we have lesser privacies. We can do this because the Gospel has secured this very thing for us. Our marriages can be a place of flourishing for our households. ...