Good Words for Today: November 15

When the church is truly the church, it will be salt and light in the world. Remember that salt is both an irritant and a preservative. If the church never irritates the world, it isn’t doing its job. G. K. Chesterton put it this way: “A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.” God calls us to swim upstream every day, and then he gives us the strength to do it.

November 15, 2025