Matt Britt

Lent is the liturgical season (church time of year) that we use for the 40 days from Ash Wednesday till Good Friday, and is a time of fasting in preparation for Holy Week.

I have to pray out loud a lot. It’s part of this job, and I’m fairly comfortable doing it. But for the first few months I worked here, I found myself stumbling over the beginning of the prayer. And no matter what I tried, it never quite felt right…

Have you ever felt out of your depth? Like that feeling you have when you’re a little kid and you jump into a pool, and for the first time, you realize your feet can’t touch the bottom.

There are some things that we do here in the Justin that seem a little crazy from the outside. Making five gallons of Nickelodeon-esque slime to pour onto an intern’s head? A little crazy. Cheering on youth who are being fed chocolate pudding blindfolded . . . by someone else…

This weekend at The Refuge, we’re going to be having a conversation centered around worry and anxiety. We have all experienced some form of anxiety . . .

Way back in the beginning (or sometime soon thereafter), God made humanity in God’s own image. And then God looked at us and declared us good. And that works as something we just say, right?

The Justin is one of those places where you don’t have to be perfect. Where you don’t have to check all the right boxes, where you don’t have to cover up every mistake so you’ll fit in.