Did you know that nearly one half of the Book of Psalms are of lament and complaint? It seems that in the voicing of lament, we are not just complaining to God, but that we somehow meet God, and are transformed by it.
Tag: relationships
Mister Rogers: Why Him? Why Now?
His show was all about affirmation, building people up, making people feel that their feelings matter, their ideas matter, that they matter.
Hot Dogs on the Brain
One of the dreams that floated to the top of the pile as the Missions Team and I spent time visioning was tailgating. On the surface, it may be hard to see the value of tailgating, although with the food and fun involved, it’s not a hard sell. What is the value of tailgating? Relationships….
No Agenda
Sometimes I get an idea, and I can’t let it go, and it ends up with me doing things like requesting to be friends with everyone on Facebook who has the same name that I do. There are about 20 of us Matt/Matthew/Mateo Ybañeze’s on Facebook. It’s my own name and I still don’t know…
Connecting with Communities, New & Old
About a month and a half ago, my wife and I packed up all of our possessions and moved from Northern California to Hurst, Texas. We left behind everything that we knew for a city that we had only been to once. We knew that moving so far away after recently getting married would be…
Investment Returns
This week my fourth grade teacher, Mrs. Batte, “friended” me on Facebook. I will be honest. It made my day! She was one of my favorite teachers and I was immediately thrown back in time, remembering that classroom. It was the year that I misspelled “restaurant” in the spelling bee – a mistake I never…
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