Faith takes us to deep places, to the ruptures in our self-confidence and our lives. Do not settle for spiritual comfort all the time…Darkness is divine also.
01971 – Faith Take Us to Deep Places
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01896 – Misguided American Christianity
American Christianity has become so misguided that saying, "Jesus loves immigrants and refugees" is interpreted as partisan rhetoric rather than divine truth.
01477 – Parables: Who Would Refuse to Trust a Good Thing?
As the parable of the Ten Virgins was about the happiness of the bridegroom at his wedding, so this one is about the ebullience of the lord's joy at throwing his money around. It is the theme of the divine party again, the party that lurks beneath the surface of...
01430 – Forgiveness is Not Instinctive
To forgive is extraordinary. And divine. And uncommon--and not instinctive. In fact, forgiveness runs precisely counter to our instincts. It tugs us beyond the place where we would want to declare our pain, nurse our hurts and invoke sympathy. It encourages us to give...
01429 – Joining God’s Holy Adventure
While an adventurous spirituality does not claim to provide scientific data that proves God's ever-transforming power throughout the universe, the vision of God's holy adventure boldly asserts that God is continually working in our personal, planetary, and cosmic...
01247 – Faith: Propositional Truth vs. Personal Experience
When the nineteenth-century philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche said that God is dead, he was not making an ontological point. He was making an existential point. He was not announcing that God had died, but that our experience of God had died. This was due, in part, to...
01162 – Jesus: Human and Divine
The God who in and through Jesus reveals Himself is human. And the human being who emerges in and through Jesus is divine. This is the specific characteristic of the Christian experience of God and human beings, one that is different from that of Judaism and paganism....
01048 – Love is Dangerous
Love is dangerous because it always threatens to change us and to demand our penitence. It is the opposite of the forces which try and keep us and the world as it is. Divine love moves us and the creation on towards the as yet unseen fullness of the purpose of God for...
00899 – The Mission of Church Music
The ideal of church music is found in its function. This function is religious: to bring to stronger and clearer consciousness and to greater vitality our inherent religious nature. At the heart of church music must be the consciousness of this religious nature: the...
00709 – Fully Human, Fully Divine
The implication of Christology for worship is that it is to be both fully divine and fully human. Over-divinization and over humanization are always heretical and usually the easiest routes to follow. The balance of fully human and fully divine is always the most...