Guest post by Leslie McLeod The slim, white-haired Asian man walked with an air of dignity at odds with the goofy-looking mutt at the end of his leash. I’d begun crossing their path during evening walks with my own goofy-looking mutts, creating an instant, unspoken...
How to Love Your Neighbor
Super Bowl Party!
If you've been waiting for the perfect excuse to love your neighbor, it's coming up soon! Kickoff for Super Bowl LVIII is Sunday, February 11, 2024 at 6:30 pm EST. This is one day when everyone loves football (and doesn't skip the ads). Host a Soup-er Bowl Party to...
Significant Woman Podcast
The Significant Women podcast is full of personal stories, dynamic hope, and sage wisdom from women who have gleaned all that they can from the ordinary days of an uncommon life. They aren’t significant because of their fame or success…they are significant because...
How To Be Thankful With Your Neighbors
I got greedy at Thanksgiving. Not just for juicy slices of turkey and heaping piles of mashed potatoes, or my special cranberry salad - no, I'm ashamed to admit, I got greedy for my family. I wanted them all to myself, so I was a little disappointed when another...
A New Excuse Not to Love My Neighbor
In my continual quest to find an exception clause or asterisk to Christ’s Second Greatest Command, I have a new excuse I’m sure the Lord has never heard before: “My neighborhood is a ghost town.” Literally. I live on a guest ranch in Colorado where the cabins are...
Autumn Outreach
My daughter used to get on my last nerve by the last day of summer. I think this phenomena is actually God’s kindness to mothers, easing the pain of separation with the joy of independence (hers and mine!). We both looked forward to going back to school. But then I...
An Open Letter From Your Neighbors
These quotes are from real correspondence I received from women who wanted to start a Neighborhood Cafe Bible study... until they got scared. It was originally published in 2010 but still holds true today. Dear Neighbor, We felt hopeful when you first said you wanted...
100 Ways To Engage Your Neighborhood
When Josh Reeves made a list of 100 ways to engage your neighborhood. He said: "I have found that it is often helpful to have practical ideas to start engaging the people around me. Most of the things on this list are normal, everyday things that many people are...
How Not to Love Your Neighbor
After a twenty year hiatus, I returned to Jesus wholeheartedly. After two decades walking without Him, I was all into The Greatest Commandment. He said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’...
How to Love a Troll
Help, I’m being trolled on Facebook! A few days ago, I made a quick 60-second video in my pajamas from my recliner that began, “What is the gospel?” based on a few verses I had just read in 1 Corinthians 15. But then trolls invaded my tiny corner of the worldwide web....