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Kelly Needham is married to singer/songwriter and speaker Jimmy Needham. Kelly is the author of Friendish: Reclaiming Real Friendship in a Culture of Confusion and her writing has been featured at Revive Our Hearts, Desiring God, The Gospel Coalition, The Ethics and Religious Liberties Commission, Eternal Perspectives Ministries, and Crosswalk. She has been on staff at two different churches, serving in youth, college, and women's ministry and currently teaches the Bible at her home church and co-leads a Women’s Teaching Program, training women to accurately handle the word of truth. Whether writing or speaking, Kelly’s aim is to convince as many people as possible that nothing compares to knowing Jesus. She and Jimmy live in the Dallas are ...more

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Jesus is Worthy of Waste

Jesus is worthy of waste. 

This is the idea I’ve been chewing on lately. What a subversive idea in a world that’s obsessed with numbers, analytics, growth, results, and efficiency. Jesus is worthy of waste.

Do you remember the scene in John 12 where Mary pours a year's worth of wages on Jesus’s feet?

“Mary therefore took a pound of expensive ointment made from pure nard, and anointed the feet of

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“Our friends do not answer to us; they answer to God. He is their king, their Lord, their first loyalty.”
Kelly Needham, Friend-ish: Reclaiming Real Friendship in a Culture of Confusion

“Another reason for our resistance [to the idea of idolatrous friendships] is that these friendships, at least in the beginning, feel like winning the friendship jackpot. Like you've finally found the person who gets you, who is there for you, and who makes you feel at home. When our idol has not yet failed us, when the water has not yet drained out of the broken cistern, when the storm has not yet come to destroy our house built on sand, we perceive our friendship to be the best thing ever. But just because a friendship that replaces Jesus "feels right" does not make it right.”
Kelly Needham, Friend-ish: Reclaiming Real Friendship in a Culture of Confusion

“But when Jesus is our stability—our consistent friend and refuge—we are freed to truly love others and love them sacrificially”
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