Eastertide and an Expanding Christ If Silent Saturday belongs to those grieving the death of the only Jesus they have ever known, Eastertide (the fifty days following Easter) belongs to those who are open to experiencing Jesus differently than they ever have....
When people say, "Let it go," what they really mean is "Get over it," and that's not a helpful thing to say. It's not a matter of letting go--you would if you could. Instead of "Let it go," we should probably say, "Let it be"; this recognizes that the mind won't let...
If someone is falling behind in life, you don't have to remind them. Believe me, they already know. If someone is unhealthy, they know. If someone is failing at work, they know. If someone is struggling in their relationships with money, with self-image... they know....
We have bigger houses, but smaller families;More conveniences, but less time;We have more degrees, but less sense;More knowledge, but less judgment;More experts, but more problems;More medicines, but less healthiness;We've been all the way to the moon and back,but...
Don't become satisfied with a relationship with God that is broken by sin and void of the power of the Holy Spirit. You have just as much of God's powerful presence available to you as the greatest saint in Christian history! Return to God! from Experiencing God, Day...
We're learning that we cannot solve the challenges of today without building strong relationships.
I believe that we can only safely read Scripture—which is a dangerous book in the wrong hands—if we are somehow sharing in the divine gaze of love. A life of prayer helps us develop a third eye that can read between the lines and find the golden thread which is moving...
What matters is not the size of the church or the slickness of the programming. What matters is that those who come find a ministry and relationships worthy of spontaneous word-of-mouth recommendations. from Sticky Church
The Gospel must not only offer a personal salvation in the future life to those who believe; it must also transform all the relationships of life here and now and thus cause the Kingdom of God to prevail in all the world. from The Deeply Formed life: Five...
The beauty of Christian spirituality is that the God we are in relationship with is for us in Christ. Like the father in the prodigal son story, God is waiting with his eyes looking for us in the distance. He is waiting to embrace us. This image might take some...