Get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted. Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
03886 – Get Up in the Morning!
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03302 – “Follies of God”
For nothing is fixed, forever and forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting, the light is always changing, the sea does not cease to grind down rock. Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only...
03120 – Lost vs. Found
What's lost is nothing to what's found, and all the death that ever was, set next to life, would scarcely fill a cup.
02974 – Do You Believe in Miracles?
Do you believe in miracles? Well, you should. In fact, life itself is a big miracle. There are so many things that are beyond our understanding. There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.
02748 – The Answer is “Yes!”
I’m mindful that for many of us, we have heard a lot of “no’s” in our lifetimes. Especially from people who think they are speaking for or defending God. Whether implicitly or explicitly, we’ve heard things like:"No, you’re not supposed to be asking questions like...
02424 – Superstition, Not Faith
We must learn that to expect God to do everything while we do nothing is not faith but superstition.
02038 – Good Can Come from Evil
To show you … how out of evil there can come good, in those five years I read every book in the black school library. I read all the books I could get from the white school library. I memorized James Weldon Johnson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Countee Cullen and Langston...
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Christians are to be people of service. They are not to think they came into the world to sit at a banquet, but they are to wait on their Master while he sits at the table. Too many consider that the services of the sanctuary are intended merely to feed them. They...
01757 – Said Better by the Wind
Nothing has ever been said about God that hasn't already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.
01730 – U.S. Church in Crisis
The crisis in the U.S. church has almost nothing to do with being liberal or conservative; it has everything to do with giving up on the faith and discipline of our Christian baptism and settling for a common, generic U.S. identity that is part patriotism, part...