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I am so thankful that God has blessed me with friends. When I use the word friend, I have a specific definition in mind. It is a person with whom I share a trusting two-way vulnerability, a person who cares about me enough to speak Biblical truth to me when I need it, and who cares enough about Jesus to gracefully receive Biblical truth from me when they need it.

God has always desired to be with His people. He consecrates a space and invites us in. For Moses it was in the thunder and lightning on a mountain top. For the high priest it was behind the temple veil in the holy of holies. For the disciples, it was wherever Jesus was—around dinner tables, on boats, in synagogues, in gardens and mountains and fields (John 2:19-22). For us, it’s anywhere we are (I Corinthians 6:19-20)

We want abundant life, but sometimes we make finding it so complicated. Yet, “whoever does not receive [abundant life] as a little child will by no means enter it.” Luke 18:17. A child can do it. The map can’t be that complicated.

he Easter story is all things to all men for all time. If you haven’t yet, somewhere along the way you will find yourself within it. Easter is a story of death and life. People are mesmerized with the idea of life after death. Of course death is scary for most, but not as much if you get to live on afterwards!

It’s been a couple weeks, but my thoughts are back today to the notion of unity in the little body of believers we call Grace. In years gone by, in a setting such as ours, I would have been known as Brother Eric (or just Brother).