Many years ago, I stood at the checkout in a liquor store in my hometown. I was bringing home the sparkling cider for our family’s Christmas dinner.
The woma...
“I do believe; help me overcome my unbelief!” -Mark 9.24
In this month of resurrection celebration, I often return to the beautiful story of Mary, Martha, an...
Our Father in heaven,
Reveal who you are.
Those are the words Jesus uses to begin what we know as “The Lord’s Prayer.” Of course, the version you might know...
Teaching through Leviticus can do strange things to you.
Between all the sacrifices and laws and weird details about menstrual cycles and eating shellfish, s...
Verbs matter.
A horse can run—but it can also trot, gallop, canter, or buck. Which would you rather watch?
When I talk to a friend, I can chat, but I can ...
Does it feel like a new year?
I’m not sure. In some respects, we have hope this year we didn’t have a few months ago. A vaccine to end, or at least mitigate,...
Have you seen those signs on the wide of river walks? The ones that scream at you—“Don’t Feed the Ducks!” Did you ever wonder why not?
It turns out, bread is...
I originally wrote this story in 2018. I went looking for it this morning because there are definitely some of us who are not coming to this Thanksgiving with j...
I’ve been revisiting the story of Moses bringing his people out of Egypt again. You know—burning bush—Pharaoh, plagues, lambs, all that MGM stuff.
After God ...
Then God looked over all he had made, and he saw that it was very good! -Genesis 1:31 (NLT)
I blame it on my brother for giving me a full color book of endange...
A recent poll discovered that 21% of millennials say they've changed jobs within the past year—over three times the number of older people. Only 29 percent are ...
Kangaroo!
There’s a story that Captain Cook met aborigine people when he came to Australia, and he asked what that odd, large grey jumping animal was. He’d n...
Jill Richardson is the pastor of Real Hope Community Church near Chicago. She is the author of six books and a national speaker, as well as a contributor to books from Dayspring, Lillenas, and Christianity Today. Jill’s doctorate in "Church Leadership in a Changing Context" is helping her with her passion—passing on a healthy, creative church and doing it with the next generation. She is a graduate of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, Bethel Seminary (St. Paul), and Washington University. Her focus is on church leadership, creative preaching, immigration and refugees, women’s issues, and intergenerational leadership. She has an unnatural love for Middle-earth, chocolate marzipan, old musicals, fish tacos, oceans, cats, and Earl Grey. She believes in Jesus, grace, restoration, kindness, justice, and the Cubs. You can find her work at jillmrichardson.com.
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