“Not everything that is faced can be changed,” writes James Baldwin in As Much Truth as One Can Bear, “but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”

Hear that in the background?

It’s the “yeah, but” machine starting up. We all have one somewhere inside of us.

The exceedingly good news of the Gospel of Christ Jesus is the “yeah, AND” so many of us need to hear again and again.

Are we listening to “yeah, but” or “yeah, AND” today?