It's the human desire in all of us to want to make life better for somebody else. It makes you feel larger. It makes you feel part of the whole human race.
04327 – Make Life Better…
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04291 – A Call to be Dispossessed
The Christian narrative is a call to be dispossessed. The desire to possess is one of the greatest manifestations of fear in the world today. The desire to possess is what leads us to so much violence ... Daily newspapers (are full) of ample testimony to the gravity...
03598 – Soul-Searching
Perhaps the path or method of soul search is merely recognition that all our acts of knowledge are attempts to remember what we once knew, but we have forgotten. Perhaps all of our attempts are sacred actions whose profound motive is salvation or redemption. Perhaps...
03587 – Mind Your Own Business
One of the first things to learn if you want to be a contemplative is to mind your own business. Nothing is more suspicious, in a man who seems holy, than an impatient desire to reform other men.----------------------------------------------Gender-inclusive version:...
03547 – Every Single Time…
Every single time I die to something - my notions of my own specialness, my plans and desires for something to be a very particular way - every single time I fight it and yet every single time I discover more life and more freedom than if I had gotten what I wanted....
03280 – To Pray is to Change
To pray is to change. Prayer is the central avenue God uses to transform us. If we are unwilling to change, we will abandon prayer as a noticeable characteristic of our lives. The closer we come to the heartbeat of God, the more we see our need and the more we desire...
03228 – Our Leaning Side
A pastor of a small church would occasionally call on one gentleman to pray, and every time this one particular guy would pray, he would end with the strangest statement, “And, oh Lord, prop us up on our leaning side.” Finally, the pastor pulled him aside, and he...
02841 – Repentance
REPENTANCE is not seen in tears; it is not seen in words; it is not seen in emotion. Repentance is long, slow, consistent change over an extended period of time because it is from the heart outward. Heart change is supernatural work.... REPENTANCE of habituated sin is...
02770 – What Jesus Mentions
Our Lord never mentions poverty as one of the obstructions to His kingdom, neither has it ever proved as such; riches, cares, and desires He does mention. from Weighed and Wanting
02596 – Self-Denial in the New Testament
The New Testament has lots to say about self-denial, but not about self-denial as an end in itself. We are told to deny ourselves and to take up our crosses in order that we may follow Christ; and nearly every description of what we shall ultimately find if we do so...