If you find God with great ease, perhaps it is not God you have found.
02011 – Finding God
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02007 – Love vs. Hate
We cannot pray in love and live in hate and still think we are worshipping God.
02000 – A God Who Restores
We must be the ones that invest in abandoned places. In abandoned people. Because when the world says that there is no future there, we are the ones who know better. We believe in a God that restores.
01998 – Our Turning Point
The turning point in our lives is when we stop seeking the God we want and start seeking the God who is.
01996 – Humans Behaving Badly
As a general rule, I would say that human beings never behave more badly toward one another than when they believe they are protecting God.
01994 – What is Restoration?
Restoration is the inworking of God's presence that transforms us with the heart of God, the mind of Christ, and the fruit of the Holy Spirit.
01988 – Highlighting the Parts We Like
You're all into the 'born-again' thing. And that's great -- Jesus said that to a man named Nicodemus, to enter the Kingdom of God you need to be born again. But if you tell me that I've got to be born again, I can tell you that you need to sell everything you have and...
01984 – The Good Samaritan: A Different Perspective
The Good Samaritan story is not just a good example of compassionate spirituality. It is a critique against religious passivity. If "church people" won't work for justice and mercy, God will find some other people who will.
01983 – Seeing Things as Connected
This beautiful prayer [from John 17] for union is from Jesus’ Last Supper address to his disciples. It might be the highest level of mystical teaching in the entire New Testament. Here Jesus connects everything: he in his Father, the Father in you, you in God, God in...
01982 – Becoming the True You
I’ve come to see that the call of God, the love that bids us welcome, is always a call to become the true you. Not a doormat. The true you. Not an imitation of someone else. The true you: someone made in the image of God, deserving of and receiving love. The ability...