Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach.
02724 – Mending Part of Our World
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02521 – Participating in What God is Doing
The task is not to get God to do something I think needs done, but to become aware of what God is doing so that I can participate in it.
02463 – Courage, Patience, and Sleep
Have courage for the great sorrows, and patience in the small ones, and when you have accomplished your tasks, go to sleep in peace.
02322 – Christian Mission
My mission as a Christian is not "to convert the heathen" as we once asserted; it is rather to assist in the task of helping all people "to live fully, to love wastefully, and to be all that they are capable of being."
02030 – Good Theology Maintains Two Freedoms
Until I went to seminary, no one had taught me how to clean the lens of my awareness and perception. Studying the philosophy of Franciscan John Duns Scotus (1266–1308) for four years had a profound effect on me. Duns Scotus taught (admittedly in rarefied Latin) that...
02012 – Complex World has Staggering Problems
The world is complex and facing staggering problems. It needs Christians who are up to the task of making a constructive contribution, intellectually ready for the challenges that humanity faces, deeply motivated to love God and neighbor with all our minds. from After...
01953 – Fill the Jars First
Before the water turned into wine, someone had to do the ordinary, tiresome task of filling the water pots. We want the new wine to just appear, but Jesus calls us to fill the jars first. In short, God often wants us to participate in our own transformation.
01696 – The Task of Christianity
It is not the task of Christianity to provide easy answers to every question, but to make us progressively aware of a mystery. God is not so much the object of our knowledge as the cause of our wonder.
01131 – A Key Question
When you get your "Who am I?" question right, all of your "What should I do?" questions tend to take care of themselves.
00834 – God Deserves First Place
Music is a demanding art. To achieve excellence in it requires hard discipline and unremitting work. Yet with all his devotion to it a Christian musician must keep his priorities clear. God is the source of all talent. When God gives talent, including musical talent,...