🛠️ Weekend Wisdom: Truth as Foundation
Teach us truth that heals.
Happy Saturday, friends!
This week, we've explored how truth serves as the cornerstone of authentic relationships with God and each other. Today, I'm offering a dual engagement with this theme: a fresh feature for our younger readers (teens and young adults), alongside our established practice guide for adults seeking deeper spiritual connection.
I'm also excited to share my first weekend video homily, Truth Beyond Power Games: Jesus and the Taxation Trap. This brief reflection disproves the rumor that I can't preach under five minutes. It highlights Jesus's teachings, which feel particularly relevant to our divisive political climate.
In response to your feedback, I've created a new Lexicon, a Theological and Political Glossary, to help clarify unfamiliar terminology in my Monday and Thursday serialized manuscripts.
For Our Younger Readers
Discover five practical ways to cultivate truthfulness, including checking multiple sources, slowing down reactions, and finding truthful communities. Perfect for teens and young adults navigating a world of information overload.
For Adults: Deeper Practices
For adults seeking a deeper engagement with truthfulness, I suggest five core practices with detailed steps for implementation:
Examine Your Information Ecosystem
Practice Confession and Accountability
Cultivate Intellectual Humility
Practice the Pause
Create Spaces of Mutual Truth-Seeking
Each practice includes specific steps, reflection questions, and biblical connections to support your journey toward authentic truth-telling.
This Week's Content
If you missed any of our content this week, here's your chance to catch up:
Last Week's Content
This Week's Challenge
Choose one practice from youth or adult articles to implement daily this week. At the end of each day, briefly note the following:
What did this practice reveal about your relationship with truth?
What resistance did you experience?
What one insight will you carry forward?
Prayer for Truthfulness
Loving Creator,
In a world of competing claims, grant us discerning hearts. Where we cling to comfortable half-truths, grant us courage for the whole. Where we use truth as a weapon, teach us truth that heals. Where we fear what truth might cost us, remind us that your truth sets us free. Amen.
Until next week, Craig