The Salty Pastor

The best gift you will ever give anyone is you. Not the version of you that demands its own way, controls the people around it, sets up expectations that get broken and leave everyone disappointed — but the real you. The you that God designed. The you that, when it shows up, blesses your spouse, your kids, your friends, and your community in ways you can't manufacture or perf...

Men struggle with emotional presence in a different way. They're not typically filtering the present through past emotions — they're not aware of what they're feeling or why they're feeling it in the first place. Most men have strong emotions; very few know what's behind them. And that gap — between feeling something and understanding it — is what keeps men defensive, hidden,...

Most people are physically present in their lives but not actually there. They're somewhere in the past, relitigating something that already happened, or somewhere in the future, anxious about something that might. And the present moment — which is the only moment anything actually happens in — passes by while they're somewhere else.

Brett McKay writes that being fully ...

Carli Lloyd was 21 years old when her coach told her plainly: you're strong, but you're mentally weak. You're lazy. You don't push yourself. Your character is poor — you make excuses and find people to blame. You always have a reason things aren't working out, instead of focusing on what you can do to change that. Her response in her memoir is worth reading twice: he had just...

Paul writes to people living in the epicenter of idol manufacturing in the ancient world — a city where the economy depended on idolatry, where following Jesus had already cost people their livelihoods and their safety. And his prayer for them isn't protection or comfort. It's that the eyes of their heart would be opened: that they would know the hope to which they'd been cal...