So we need to brace ourselves. Adjust our expectations. April as we wanted will not happen. God willing, it will reappear in 2021. But the 2020 version? It’s time for a deep breath, a steady resolve and a few decisions. I’m thinking of three essential, emotional tools.
Gratitude. Collect your blessings. Catalog God’s kindnesses.
Tomorrow night, Tuesday, March 31 at 8 PM Eastern Time, Ed Stetzer will join me for a free webinar “How Christians Can Love Their Neighbors During the Coronavirus.” Though this webinar is the first session of a 5-part short course on responding to our culture’s brokenness, we are also offering it completely free to anyone, even if they are not signed up for the rest of the course.
The news we’re all waiting for is the announcement that a vaccine or cure for coronavirus has been discovered. We trust that day will come one day.
When it does, as with crises of the past, we will remember then what people are doing now. From the president and members of Congress to our local leaders and those we know personally, actions taken (or not taken) today will echo for many years to come.
A school principal recently gave the selfless gift of a kidney to several of her students' dad. While hesitant to offer such a personal gift, principal Sarah Schecter felt called by God to donate her kidney.
A North Carolina Chick-fil-A employee's infectiously positive attitude went viral on Facebook after a customer filmed their cheery interaction.
A couple heading to join their family after the sudden loss of a relative was pulled over for a traffic violation. In a moment that could have made a bad day worse, instead of issuing the grieving driver a ticket, the State Trooper offered to pray with the family.
When his power was shut off some 36 years ago, 73-year-old Pensacola resident Mike Esmond, spent Christmas in the cold and dark. Years later, Esmond built a successful business and decided he wanted to pay it forward, so this year, he paid off the overdue utility bills of 36 families.
If you were a millionaire for a day, how would you spend your money? One Texas woman says she would tithe 10 percent of her income before donating some and investing the rest in real estate.
Fred Rogers was a music major in college with plans to attend seminary upon graduation. Then he came home to Latrobe, Pennsylvania, to discover that his parents had bought a television. When he turned it on, according to Junod, he knew that he wanted to use its medium “for the broadcasting of grace through the land.”
The more that violence fills the news, the more we need examples to give us hope. That’s why Tom Hanks is such an important model for our culture. Hanks’ movies have grossed nearly $10 billion worldwide. His portrayal of Fred Rogers will be at least his seventy-first film.
