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...

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02052 – Judging vs. Understanding

It's easy to judge. It's more difficult to understand. Understanding requires compassion, patience, and a willingness to believe that good hearts sometimes choose poor methods. Through judging, we separate. Through understanding, we grow.

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01516 – A Serious Malady of the Soul

A generation of Christians reared among push buttons and automatic machines is impatient of slower and less direct methods of reaching their goals. We have been trying to apply machine-age methods to our relationship with God. We read our chapters, have our short...

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01106 – Don’t React Violently

Jesus is not telling us to submit to evil, but to refuse to oppose it on its own terms. We are not to let the opponent dictate the methods of our opposition. He is urging us to transcend both passivity and violence by finding a third way, one that is at once assertive...

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00748 – Knowing God Imperfectly

The shallowness of our inner experience, the hollowness of our worship, and that servile imitation of the world which marks our promotional methods all testify that we, in this day, know God only imperfectly, and the peace of God scarcely at all.

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00695 – Worship in Truth Transcends Culture

True worship is expressed in biblical terms, methods and patterns. True worship is defined by the truth of God, not by the surrounding culture. The challenge of worshiping in the truth of the Kingdom while living in the culture of the world has faced every church in...

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00404 – Gospel: Not a Consumer Product

In our zeal for mass conversion and standard strategies, we overlook the fact that evangelism requires far more than effective methods. The gospel is not a consumer product to be marketed by drawing from a strategic tool kit. People come to faith in Christ through a...

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