When the gospel is understood primarily in terms of entrance rather than joyous participation, it can actually serve to cut people off from the explosive, liberating experience of the God who is an en...
When we don't throw ourselves completely into it and we hold back our best efforts because of what happened in the past, we are letting the past decide the future.
When you come to the end of yourself, you are at that exact moment in the kind of place where you can fully experience the God who is for you.
When you’re fighting, it’s absolutely crucial to keep remembering that they’re trying to figure it out just like you are.
Your job is the relentless pursuit of who God made you to be. And anything else you do is sin and you need to repent of it.
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When people object to the idea of God, to the idea that there is more beyond our tangible, provable-with-hard-evidence observations and experiences of the world, they aren’t taking the entire world in...
Arguing about how it literally happened can be an easy way to avoid facing the people in your life you need to forgive. For the people who first heard this story, the story would have had a provocativ...
Be honest about your joy.
Better to have a stomach full of butterflies than to feel like your life is passing you by.
Bitterness is not your friend. It's easy to become cynical, focusing your energies on them and endlessly wondering why they aren't more evolved and why they are still stuck back there, repeating the s...
Can you see why Jesus often began his teachings by saying Repent!? You know what repent means? It means to change your thinking, to see things in a new way, to have your mind renewed—all
Churches and religious communities and organizations can claim to speak for God while at the same time actually being behind the movement of God that is continuing forward in the culture around them ....
Craft is when you meet up with someone else who's serious about her craft and you talk for hours about the subtle nuances and acquired wisdom of the work. Craft is when you realize you're building mus...
Far too often, we don't start because we can't get our minds around the entire thing. We don't take the first step because we can't figure out the seventeenth step. But you don't have to know the seve...
I have been told that I need to believe in Jesus. Which is a good thing. But what I am learning is that Jesus believes in me.
The intellect has a way of building a fence around the heart, cutting us off from what we know to be true in a way that is hard to prove according to the categories in which proof matters.
The question, then, the art, the task, the search, the challenge, the invitation is for you and me to become more and more the kind of people who are aware of the divine presence, attuned to the ruach...
There is hell now, and there is hell later, and Jesus teaches us to take both seriously.
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