Christian hospitality opens homes and hearts. It’s vitally important for churches to learn the art of hospitality. My own definition of hospitality: “any direct and personal act of welcoming love, ...
For the Christian, the matter of hospitality would seem to be straightforward, a given. But lately, the word hospitality sums up the challenge of discipleship.
Imagine a world where everyone’s hearts and homes were open to others in need, where nobody was excluded from a feast, even those often overlooked. A world where the poor and marginalized were not ...
"Whoever receives a prophet because he is a prophet will receive a prophet's reward." When Jesus made that magnificent promise, he was offering a new twist on traditional Semitic morality which taught ...
On July 4, we celebrate the notion that we, the people of the United States of America, will wake up in a free country. We may gather with friends and family members to celebrate this great nation, ...
I grew up in what you would call an “ethnic” household. I heard another language being spoken in the house daily. My family carried on many Eastern European traditions that were comforting and normal ...
We often focus on caring for our own, yet the biblical call to hospitality echoes throughout the Scriptures. Leviticus commands us to love the stranger as ourselves. Isaiah pictures God setting a ...
Arnold Glasow sums up hospitality: “Hospitality is making others feel at home. Some folks make you feel at home. Others make you wish you were.” All kidding aside, hospitality is serious business. So ...
Hospitality as an exercise of Christian faith is not groundbreaking theology. The hospitality of early Christian communities was so great it earned them the ire of the Roman government. “These impious ...
The Biblical Whirlwind of Death That Is About to Rain Down on the Mullahs The Clock Ticks in Iran Trump’s Self-Destructive Greenland Gambit Audio By Carbonatix Lance Richey is editor of a new edition ...
A trendy, perfectly furnished home is not required to be useful for the kingdom. Our first home was my in-laws’ tiny cottage, where we stayed for free. There were unfinished walls, the floors were ...