Christian faith would be so much healthier if we didn't see our faith as a war to be won or people as enemies but as worlds to be explored and people to be loved.
03132 – Healthy Christian Faith
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02424 – Superstition, Not Faith
We must learn that to expect God to do everything while we do nothing is not faith but superstition.
02358 – Dwell on God, Not Feelings
If you dwell on your own feelings about things rather than dwelling on the faithfulness, the love, and the mercy of God, then you're likely to have a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. Our feelings are very fleeting and ephemeral, aren't they? We can't depend...
02261 – Hail Mary, Full of GRACE
When we think about the Annunciation, this scene between the angel Gabriel and Mary, we think of the faith it took for her to believe that she would conceive by the power of the Holy Spirit and that her son, the illegitimate child of an insignificant girl, really...
02082 – Telling the Truth about Racism
There's something unholy, unrighteous that happens when you combine this concept of whiteness and white supremacy with Christianity... In the Bible it says any addition to the Gospels negates the Gospels--it's no longer the Gospel. When you add this gospel of...
01987 – I See More Clearly Now
I see more clearly, now that I am aging. Not with my eyesight, but with my soul. I see the fine detail of what I missed in younger years. I see the place of faith and forgiveness in my story. I see the possibilities of life in ways I never imagined. I was not blind in...
01714 – Books Can Enrich Our Faith
While I gained much from conversations about faith from my fellow travelers through the landscape of the Christian faith, I have found that my personal faith is now enriched and deepened mainly by reading books. from Mere Discipleship
01703 – Persuasion is Required
At such a moment, hesitancy in speaking out faithfully on behalf of the good news of Jesus is inexcusable. There are...issues thrown at Christians today, and the world is both owed an answer and is actually waiting for the answer that only the church can give—even if...
01619 – A Different Way to Think
But our commitment is to do what we have promised, not to meet expectations, whether our own or those of others. If we can learn to measure effectiveness in terms of discerning what is really worth doing and keeping a covenant to do it, we might be both faithful and...
01296 – Maybe Your Faith Needs Some Reflection?
Christians began as a politically unimportant offshoot of Judaism in the Roman Empire. The early Christians found ways to live faithfully from one Caesar to another. If your faith is shattered by the politics of the moment, it may be your faith that needs some...