Unity

You’ve Got a Friend in Community

Community, Forgiveness, Friendship, Unity

You got a friend in me” The Randy Newman song can be heard throughout every Toy Story movie. The original movie, Toy Story (directed…

Unity isn’t Walking Alone

Community, Unity

We aren’t meant to walk alone: “Walk on, walk on with hope in your heart / And you’ll never walk alone.” These lyrics from…

Community Teamwork

Community, team, Unity

One of the most powerful examples of a community is a team. Whether it is a World Cup soccer team or fictional superheroes like…

Diversity, Unity, and the Love of God

Community, Diversity, Family, God's Love, Love, The Body of Christ, The Family of God, Unity

We can demonstrate the love of God well when we act as an aggregate, a whole formed by collecting many parts into one group,…

Closeness, God Our Father, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Jesus Followers, Trinity, Unity

The unity displayed by the persons of the Trinity is described as homoousios. This word was first used to describe the Trinity by the…

Integrity

Idolatry, Integrity, Sin, Unity, Worship

In Letters to my Children, Daniel Taylor discusses integrity. He writes that integrity “means wholeness, unity.” When we sin, we become divided and less…

Closing the Gaps

Community, Connection, Division, Unity

Artist Hunter Franks traveled across the country, intentionally designing interventions to help close gaps in racially and economically divided cities by sending postcards to…

Working in Unity

Community, The Church, Unity, Working Together

Throughout the many seasons of the television show Gilmore Girls, the small town of Stars Hollow (so small it doesn’t have a mayor) constantly…

Being in One Another’s Lives

Brokenness, Love, Loving Others, Relationships, Unity

Jesus did not become a heretic because he ate with sinners, showed mercy to adulterers, or bucked certain religious traditions. Loving others well happens…

Hard Work, Together

Christian Unity, Teamwork, Unity, Working Together

In a Nike commercial from 2014, Lebron James brings together his team and the whole city of Cleveland to work toward an NBA championship…

The River and the Tree

Church, Diversity, New Creation, The Church, Unity

Paul’s call for us to treat everyone as a new creation in Christ means that we will need to strive for unity while embracing…

Finding Unity

Faith, Trust, Trusting God, Unity

In the movie The Great Wall (directed by Yimou Zhang [Universal Pictures, 2017]), William is challenged; in order to beat the opposing forces, he…

In Step

Christian Unity, The Body of Christ, The Church, Unity

Think of unity as like being in a marching band. Each person has an instrument to play and steps to march. If even one…

Brothers And Sisters In Arms

Christian Unity, Love, Sacrifice, The Body of Christ, Unity

Similar to joining the military, when you become a Christian and join the church, you immediately find yourself among brothers and sisters in the…

Church Family

Church Family, Community, Family, Family of God, The Church, Unity

The human family unit is meant to be a small model of how the family of God works. Christians are called to treat each…

Run As One

Healthy Relationships, Marriage, One, Relationships, Unity

In a three-legged race, you and your partner are connected together by your inside legs, thus having only “three” working legs between the two…

We’re All Equal Here

Church, Communion, Community, Equality, Unity

In an article on a general overview of the Lord’s Supper, John Armstrong gives a brief story showing how Communion brings all to the…

Unity Is Essential

Body of Christ, Christians, The Church, Unity

In 1 Corinthians 12, Paul describes the church as a body that is made up of individuals. However, though it is made up of…

Making A Mess

Christians, Church, Community, Fellowship, Harmony, The Body of Christ, The Church, Unity

Toddlers can be funny to watch eat. They are still developing the coordination to hold their fork or spoon and then bring it to…

Better Together

Community, Journey, Opposition, Strength, Teamwork, The Church, Unity, Warfare

We are in a spiritual war (Ephesians 6:12–18) against our Enemy, the devil, who is out to devour us (1 Peter 5:8–9). If we…