Slowly appreciation swells to astonishment. And we enter the dialogue of our lives that is beyond all understanding or conclusion. It is mystery. It is love of God. It is obedience.
04266 – The Dialogue of our Lives
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04151 – Mystery of Human Existence
The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
04084 – War vs. Peace
We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.
03702 – Embrace the Mystery
It's a frightful thing - thinking you have to get God right in order to get God to love you, thinking you're always one error away from damnation. It's a kind of legalism, really... How ironic. The very condition of humanity is to be wrong about God. The moment we...
03591 – Faith & Mystery
Faith is a place of mystery, where we find the courage to believe in what we cannot see and the strength to let go of our fear of uncertainty. from The Gifts of Imperfection
03550 – Doubt & Faith
Doubt is not the enemy of faith. It's the ground out of which faith often emerges. Faith requires us to venture into mystery. There's no certitude in mystery. Doubt and faith are companions on the journey.
02862 – True Religion vs. Idolatry
True religion is not about possessing the truth. No religion does that. It is rather an invitation into a journey that leads one toward the mystery of God. Idolatry is religion pretending that it has all the answers.
02774 – No Witnesses at the Resurrection
The resurrection took place apart from any eyewitness to it. This is how God works. God is the Mystery of the world, and if we are to have faith at all it will always be after the fact of God's invisible working. We get to see only after we don't see.
02559 – First Coming
He did not wait till the world was readytill men and nations were at peace.He came when the Heavens were unsteadyand prisoners cried out for release.He did not wait for the perfect time.He came when the need was deep and great.He dined with sinners in all their...
02467 – Listen to Your Life
If I were called upon to state in a few words the essence of everything I was trying to say both as a novelist and as a preacher it would be something like this: Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery that it is. In the boredom and pain of it no less...