Connection is the energy that is created between people when they feel seen, heard, and valued--when they can give and receive without judgment.
01386 – Connection Creates Energy
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01244 – Creating God in Our Own Image?
You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
01175 – Indifference: Worse than Despair
Why are people indifferent? Don't people understand that indifference is probably the worst plague that exists in life? It is worse than despair. Despair is a beginning. Despair can inspire you to create great works of art, music, literature, philosophy, theology....
00548 – Casting Off the False Self
But sooner or later we must distinguish between what we are not and what we are. We must accept the fact that we are not what we would like to be. We must cast off our false exterior self like the cheap and showy garment that it is. We must find our real self in all...
00431 – Finding Our Organizing Center
The reason why our childhoods were one enthusiasm after another was that we hadn’t yet found an organizing center for our lives and a goal that would demand our all and our best. The Christian faith is the discovery of that center in the righteous God. Christian...
00350 – Becoming “Little Christs”
In the same way the Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ, to make them little Christs. If they are not doing that, all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible itself, are simply a waste of time. God became man for no other...
00342 – What it Means to be Biblical
To be biblical is not simply to quote the Bible. We need to tell that to the fundamentalists. To be biblical is not to quote Moses; it’s to do what Moses did. To be biblical is to do what Abraham did; it’s not to quote the Abraham story. It’s to do what Jesus did;...
00156 – Image of God
Imago dei, the image of God… We resemble God in our capacity to love, to reason, to feel, to relate to other creatures, to imagine, to plan, to create, to contemplate, and in many other ways. We are an image of God. A scratched-up one, badly damaged by sin, but the...
00137 – Midlife: Show Up, Be Seen
I think midlife is when the universe gently places her hands upon your shoulders, pulls you close, and whispers in your ear: “I’m not screwing around. It’s time. All of this pretending and performing—these coping mechanisms that you’ve developed to protect yourself...
00020 – On Serving God
It is within my power either to serve God or not to serve him. Serving him, I add to my own good and the good of the whole world. Not serving him I forfeit my own good and deprive the world of that good, which was in my power to create. ————-Gender-neutral version: It...