Being a Christian is not essentially about joining a church or being a nice person, but about following in the footsteps of Jesus, taking his teachings seriously, letting his Spirit take the lead in our lives, and in so doing helping to change the world from our...
The Holy Spirit is the unrestricted presence of God in which our life wakes up, becomes wholly and entirely living, and is endowed with the energies of life.
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...
The Spirit helps us discern right and wrong, and to navigate the questions and quandaries in between. In the maze of decision-making, the Spirit can be our trusted guide.
To read the gospels in the spirit with which they were written, it is not enough to ask what Jesus did or said. We must ask what Jesus meant by his strange deeds and words. He intended to reveal the Father to us, and to show that he is the only-begotten Son of the...
Let no one tell you we don't need a revolution. The old ways do not work. We need a Holy Spirit-birthed revolution, a revolution of goodness, a revolution of compassion, a revolution of love.
The folks you're shutting out of the church today will be leading it tomorrow. That's how the Spirit works. The future's in the margins.
We are not loved because we are so beautiful and good. We are beautiful and good because we are loved. from Theology of Joy
To have faith is to explore--and go on exploring--the life of the spirit on the only journey that matters: that of becoming a more rounded and authentic human being. It is to expose yourself to what has been thought of most value by past generations and test it in the...
Help me to understand, O God, how intimately healing is related to the presence of your realm. Grant that I may not only be healed myself, so that I am whole in your Spirit, but also that I may reach out with healing to others. Through Jesus, the worker of miracles,...