Important Truths to Remember Recently, after COVID-19 was declared a rapidly spreading pandemic ravaging every nation on earth, the President declared the US in a state of emergency, public schools shut down interminably, colleges abruptly released their students for...
The Curse of Being Untouchable When Jesus walked the earth, leprosy was the worst of all plagues. Not only was it a filthy, deadly disease from which no one recovered, but its contagion spread arbitrarily and wildly, rendering beloved family members outcasts and...
The Diverse Family of God Radically ordinary hospitality—those who live it—see strangers as neighbors and neighbors as family of God. They recoil at reducing a person to a category or a label. They see God’s image reflected in the eyes of every human being on earth....
1. Hospitality reflects the gospel. Faithful Christians are—and have always been—a strange minority in a hostile world. Redeemed by Christ, we have lost our old lives—and with our lives, we have left behind the history, identity, and people who once claimed us....
2 Big Barriers to Christian Hospitality from Crossway on Vimeo. Getting Real about Our Sin The two big foundational barriers to practicing hospitality are secret sin patterns and selfishness. Too often, Christians are not honest with one another about where we hurt,...
Myth #1: Only people with the “gift” of hospitality are expected to practice it. Hospitality is not a gift unto itself, but a means through which other spiritual gifts are displayed: mercy, serving, giving and evangelizing. The dynamic teaching on hospitality found in...
You're Needed, No Matter What Life-Season You're In from Crossway on Vimeo. Serve from Where You Are God commands all Christians to practice hospitality, and there’s no question that some people just enjoy it more than others. But we’re not just called to work from...
Dear friend, Are you busy? Are you important? Do you work on a tight schedule? Are your boundaries well-fortified? Those are not, in and of themselves, bad things. But they will become idols if you don’t add something: Christian hospitality—the scriptural command to...