Any idiot can find God on a mountaintop--the real challenge is finding God in the company of others as annoying as me.
02840 – Finding God
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02835 – Beauty is about Honesty
Beauty has ample room to embrace not only what is attractive but also things that are disturbing and difficult for us to confront. Beauty has this capacity because it is inseparable from truth and goodness. Indeed, beauty is the persuasive power of God’s truth and...
02834 – God is Sovereign
I have been asked hundreds of times in my life why God allows tragedy and suffering. I have to confess that I really do not know the answer totally, even to my own satisfaction. I have to accept, by faith, that God is sovereign, and He is a God of love and mercy and...
02828 – What is an Idol?
What is an idol? Any God who is mine but not yours. Any God concerned with me but not with you is an idol.
02827 – Knowing God
God approaches our minds by receding from them. We can never fully know Him if we think of Him as an object of capture, to be fenced in by our own ideas. We know Him better after our minds have let Him go. The Lord travels in all directions at once. The Lord arrives...
02822 – Moses’ Learning Curve
Moses spent forty years thinking he was somebody; forty years learning he was nobody; and forty years learning what God can do with a nobody.
02819 – Your “Yes” Requires Your “No”
Your "yes" to God requires your "no" to all injustice, to all evil, to all lies, to all oppression and violation of the weak and poor.
02818 – Say So Much, Say So Little
I am concerned about those who say so much about which God says so little, and who say so little about which God says so much.
02804 – Who’s Job is It?
It is the Holy Spirit's job to convict, God's job to judge and my job to love.
02789 – Finding God in Disorder & Imperfection
The most amazing fact about Jesus, unlike almost any other religious founder, is that he found God in disorder and imperfection — and told us that we must do the same or we would never be content on this earth. from The Naked Now: Learning to See as the Mystics See