Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
01674 – Yesterday vs. Today
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01432 – The Future’s in the Margins
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.
01204 – The Timeliness of Now
Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done and not some future day or future year. It is today that we fit ourselves for the greater usefulness of tomorrow. Today is the seed time, now are the...
01189 – Pentecost, God, and Finding What’s New
Let me describe what Pentecost wasn't like, all right? Picture all those believers meeting together. Suddenly there's the sound of a mighty rushing wind, and it fills all the house where they were sitting. "Great! This is wonderful!" they cry. "Quick! Shut the...
01125 – Beauty–What We Love; What We Do
Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened. Don't open the door to the study and begin reading. Take down a musical instument. Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
00951 – The Wounded Healer Arrives Today
To announce…that the Liberator is sitting among the poorand that the wounds are signs of hopeand that today is the day of liberation,is a step very few can take. But this is exactlythe announcement of the wounded healer:”The master is coming—not tomorrow, but...
00149 – Three Truths of Our Existence
If I were going to begin practicing the presence of God for the first time today, it would help to begin by admitting the three most terrible truths of our existence: that we are so ruined, and so loved, and in charge of so little.