Share the love in your neighborhood by accepting the Love Your Neighbor Challenge! The challenge progressively takes you closer to your neighbor day by day. Wrapped in prayer, you'll take small steps toward a deeper relationship with the people God has placed around...

Of course, the first Love Your Neighbor Challenge begins with prayer - in fact, we couldn't call this little experiment a success if each day didn't begin with prayer! Prayer won't change God's heart toward your neighbors (He's already crazy about them!), but it will...

When you visualize your neighborhood, Jesus’ ginormous command to love the whole, wide world becomes local again.   Your second challenge of the Love Your Neighbor Challenge is to draw a map of your neighborhood. This begs the question, "How can a piece of paper...

Harry & Sherry were great neighbors - friendly, thoughtful and kind. We talked across the fence often. That’s why I was horrified when they signed the guest list at our last block party as “Harry and Beth.” Had I been calling her by the wrong name all these years?...

Your next Love Your Neighbor Challenge is to serve your neighbors. Intentionally serve outside your usual church circles to meet people from a variety of backgrounds and interests... kinda like Jesus did when He left heaven to come serve us. Choose a local...

Your challenge on the next Love Your Neighbor Challenge is to give a gift to a neighbor. If you don't know your neighbor well (or at all!), having a little gift for them gives you something to talk about as soon as the door is opened. It's an instant ice breaker. How...

In 1949, Hank Williams, Sr. wrote a song called I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry. When this song first hit the airwaves, less than 10 percent of homes contained only one person. But today? On your street? One in four of the homes on your street is occupied by one person...

When my husband was injured in a home accident, our neighbors helped us in more ways than one. When one neighbor shouted for help, another came running with her husband - who is also a doctor. An emergency room nurse who lived one street over offered to make a house...

(Please excuse me while I go check Facebook.)(OK, I’m back.) I just LOL’ed and liked something funny Jessica’s daughter said, wished Peggy a happy birthday, and high-fived Michelle’s morning run. Last night I prayed via Messenger with a far-off friend about some...

Holy Week ReadingEverybody eats. Several times a day, in fact. Why not share one of those meals with a neighbor?  Your challenge on the Love Your Neighbor Challenge is to invite a neighbor to eat with you. This simple gesture of hospitality can help end the epidemic...