A miracle is when the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. A miracle is when one plus one equals a thousand. from The Alphabet of Grace
03115 – It’s a Miracle!
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03006 – Key Moments
Listen to your life. All moments are key moments.
02872 – Ants in the Pants
Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving.
02760 – A Terrible Question
And now brothers, I will ask you a terrible question, and God knows I ask it also of myself. Is the truth beyond all truths, beyond the stars, just this: that to live without Christ is the real death, that to die with Christ the only life? from The Magnificent...
02732 – Love God
To love God at all, let alone in the wilderness, is like being commanded to be well when we are sick, to sing for joy when we are dying of thirst, to run when our legs are broken. But this is the first and great commandment nonetheless. Even in the wilderness -...
02725 – Love: Powerful, Powerless
Of all powers, love is the most powerful and the most powerless. It is the most powerful because it alone can conquer that final and most impregnable stronghold which is the human heart. It is the most powerless because it can do nothing except by consent.
02656 – The Final Secret
The final secret, I think, is this: that the words "You shall love the Lord your God" become in the end less a command than a promise.
02567 – OUR Story
My assumption is that the story of any one of us is in some measure the story of us all.
02535 – Stop Trying to Do God’s Work!
Stop trying to protect, judge, manage the lives around you. Remember that the lives of others are not your business. They are their business. They are God’s business. Even your own life is not your business. It also is God’s business. Leave it to God. It can become a...
02467 – Listen to Your Life
If I were called upon to state in a few words the essence of everything I was trying to say both as a novelist and as a preacher it would be something like this: Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery that it is. In the boredom and pain of it no less...